EuroFOT: A Risk Analysis

About challenges in large-scale FOTs and how euroFOT is dealing with them

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euroFOT Project Overview

total indicative budget: Euro 22 million total indicative funding: Euro 14 million project duration: May 2008 till August 2011 coordinator: Aria Etemad

Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe 28 partners from 10 different countries:

– 9 OEMs– 3 Suppliers– 6 Universities– 4 Research Institutes– 6 Others

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euroFOTSystems under Test

Longitudinal control functions– FCW: Forward Collision Warning– ACC: Adaptive Cruise Control– SL: Speed Limiter

Lateral control functions– BLIS: Blind Spot Information System– LDW: Lane Departure Warning– IW: Impairment Warning

Advanced applications – CSW: Curve Speed Warning– FEA: Fuel Efficiency Advisor– SafeHMI: Safe Human Machine

Interaction

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euroFOTChallenges and Risks

installing additional hardware in a large number of vehicles spread across Europe,

collecting, uploading, and analysing huge amounts of data (Volvo: >50TB),

taking care of legal issues related to the continuous collection of data,

guarantying the driver’s ethical rights during the test, and

protecting the proprietary developments of the different OEMs and suppliers involved in this project.

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Risk: Technical Issues

Definition:– failure of hardware, software and data transmission

components Examples:

– HDD failure, loose connectors– unsynchronized data from different sources– impossibility to save data (disk full, or no GPRS

coverage,…) Countermeasures:

– extensive and comprehensive pilot – real-time web-based data quality monitoring tool– on-site spare part management

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Risk: Data Corruption

Definition:– Loss or degradation of data from the time data is

logged to the time that data is retrived from the database for data analysis.

Examples:– Aliasing in resampling.– Uncompleted questionnaires.– Impossible values from interpolation or filtering.

Countermeasures:– Extensive and comprehensive pre-analysis from pilot

results.– Implementation of multiple scripts for verifying data

quality at each step of data processing.

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Risk: Ethical and Legal Issues

Definition:– Anything related to data collection or to carrying

on euroFOT which does not obey to the EU laws. Examples:

– Filming in restricted (military) areas– Breaking privacy regulations– Missing to comply with the declaration of Helsinki

Countermeasures:– Involvement of many stakeholders on the issue.– Extended research on regulations and laws in EU.

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Risk: Annoyed Customers

Definition:– The OEMs customers involved in the study experience

discomfort from participating to euroFOT Examples:

– Truck delays a delivery due to euroFOT logger technical issue

– Drivers are required to spend too much time filling questionnaires

– Driver does not feel their privacy is protected Countermeasures:

– Monetary incentives to the fleet owners/ drivers– Well organized communication strategy with fleets

owner and drivers– 365/24/7 hotline at OEM

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Risk: Reduced Number of Participants

Definition:– The number of vehicle involved in euroFOT data

collection does not resemble the planned number. Examples:

– Recession decreasing significantly sales.– Unexpected costs for installation.– Unexpected costs for data management.

Countermeasures:– Flexible planning and fall back solutions.– Early involvement of sales department and customers

in the project.

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Risk: Uncontrolled Data Sharing

Definition:– Any data exchange or transfer resulting in the

presentation of data or results which may infringe euroFOT participants.

Examples:– Disclosure of suppliers proprietary data.– Reverse engineering– Benchmarking across OEMs.

Countermeasures:– Clear definition of the extent of data sharing in the

project.– Security protection of data.– Awareness on benchmarking issues in presenting

results.

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Summary

Challenges and Risks on different levels

– Technical

– Organisational

– Legal/ Ethical

Countermeasures are in place or planned for

Confident to deliver a successful project