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<doi>R16-06-178-cd</doi>
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<article-title>A Self-Adapting Reconfiguration Process for The Failure Management of Highly Automated Vehicles</article-title>
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<author>Timo Frederik Horeis<sup>a</sup>, Johannes Heinrich<sup>b</sup>, and Fabian Plinke<sup>c</sup>  </author>

<aff>Institute for Quality and Reliability Management GmbH, Germany. </aff>

<email><a href="mailto:horeis@iqz-wuppertal.de"><sup>a</sup>horeis@iqz-wuppertal.de</a></email>

<email><a href="mailto:heinrich@iqz-wuppertal.de"><sup>b</sup>heinrich@iqz-wuppertal.de</a></email>

<email><a href="mailto:plinke@iqz-wuppertal.de "><sup>c</sup>plinke@iqz-wuppertal.de </a></email>

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<p>Nowadays, current and future developments of highly automated vehicles face the challenge of designing failoperational systems without violating economic-driven cost restrictions. Thereby self-adapting failure management processes at runtime are considered to keep reasonable costs while achieving a sufficient level of reliability, availability, and safety. The aim is to regain the system&#39;s safe and available status as fast as possible after a failure occurs by implementing detection, isolation, switching, and reconfiguration measures. These self-organized measures introduce additional fallback levels by optimizing the usage of the system&#39;s resources. Thus, it significantly reduces the vehicle&#39;s costs compared to, e.g., highly redundant systems. However, implementing and executing this process is tedious, especially regarding reconfiguring the vehicle&#39;s application to the system resources, e.g., computing nodes. Depending on the vehicle&#39;s current status, the solution space may contain many possible system configurations to regain the availability and safety of the vehicle. As a result, various characteristics must be considered to determine the best-suited system configuration. Furthermore, a valid solution must be found under a given time constraint. Therefore, this paper defines a system model and suggests a mapping problem for the reconfiguration procedure to maintain the availability and safety of the vehicle. Furthermore, a process to determine the optimal solution within a given timeframe is suggested to determine a Pareto front of the most suitable system configurations, which maintain the system&#39;s safe operation. </p><p> <italic>Keywords: </italic>Adaptation, Failure management, Autonomous vehicles, Reconfiguration, Availability, Safety. </p>
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