Current issues and future trends in analysis of automotive functional safety

Abstract

The complexity of automotive electric and electronic systems is rapidly growing with increasingly new functions. Safety is one of key issues of future automotive development and is becoming more and more important. In this paper, we discuss the influence factors of automotive functional safety from three aspects during the development process, which are international standards, automotive E/E architecture and Model-Based Engineering approaches. And then we present related work such as modeling languages and tools, integration of mixed criticality applications and methods for functional safety analysis. According to the above discussion we propose the trends of analysis of automotive functional safety and give some advices for future research. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.