Multi-Partner Project: UP2DATE4SDV : Enabling Safe and Secure Modular Updates, Upgrades and Dynamic Task-Reallocation and -Execution for Software Defined Vehicles

Kurzfassung

The European automotive industry is undergoing a revolution by the upcoming technologies of software-defined vehicles (SDV) and connected cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM). In a globally challenging context, in which Europe lost market share, the local automotive software and electronics market still expects a 11.9% compound annual growth rate from 2025 to 2030 even more accentuated with the increasing adoption of advanced driver assistance (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD). Both SDV and CCAM are key technological paradigms for enabling a shift of the European automotive sector towards a regained strategic competitiveness. Targeting the resulting need for faster development, deployment and test cycles the Horizon Europe RIA UP2DATE4SDV aims to develop a comprehensive ecosystem for seamless and efficient, safe and secure software updates, hardware upgrades, and situation-dependent reconfigurations of SDVs. For that goal, the UP2DATE4SDV consortium collaborates on the definition and development of two abstraction layers the hardware abstraction layer and the operating system & middleware abstraction layer as well as on researching and prototyping a safe and secure orchestration and reconfiguration plane between vehicle and cloud. Based on the resulting modular architecture concept and the corresponding DevOps process the project develops demonstrators to showcase safe and secure updates, upgrades and dynamic task reallocation for automotive hardware and software components. In this paper, we introduce the project, its objectives and planned results, draft first outcomes by refining our demonstrator defi nitions, and conclude with an outlook into the automotive future based on a safe and secure adaptive SDV stack.