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10th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety
The CARS workshop is a forum focusing on architecture, methods and development techniques for safety-related automotive embedded systems and applications.
The 10th edition of CARS is collocated with EDCC 2026, Canterbury, UK.
| 9:00-10:30 | Welcome | |
| Session: Architectures for Cooperative and Safe Autonomous Systems | ||
| 09:10-09:50 | Adaptive Safety-Constrained Behavior for Cooperative Autonomous Robot Systems Catharina Helten and Patrick Wolf |
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| 09:50-10:30 | A Federated Perception Architecture for Robust Safety-Relevant Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles Aiman Faiz, Marco De Santis, and Christiancarmine Esposito |
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| Break | ||
| 11:00-12:20 | Session: AI/ML Evaluation, Benchmarking, and Testing for Autonomous Driving | |
| 11:00-11:40 | Benchmarking Autonomous Vehicles: A Driver Foundation Model Framework Yuxin Zhang, Cheng Wang, and Hubert P. H. Shum |
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| 11:40-12:20 | Shifting from Adversarial Behavior to Sensor-Level Generation for Testing Autonomous Vehicles Cheng Wang and Yuxin Zhang |
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| Lunch | ||
| 13:40-15:30 | Keynote | |
| 13:40-14:40 | Probabilistic Safety Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles: Approaches and Challenges Peter Popov |
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| Short Presentations | ||
| 14:40-15:05 | Short Presentation Design Considerations for Safe and Secure System with Microkernel Architecture Leo Hendrawan |
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| 15:05-15:30 | Short Presentation What is an AI/ML error that leads to hazard? A causal chain exploration Hugues Bonnin |
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| Break | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Session Human-in-the-Loop Safety and Runtime Risk Assessment | |
| 16:00-16:40 | An HMI Personalization Concept for Increasing Safety of the Intended Functionality Sahoo Swagat Sukumar, Barbara Gallina, and Soheila Sheikh Bahaei |
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| 16:40-17:20 | Situation-Aware Dynamic Risk Assessment for Highway Cut-Ins: Bridging Human Factors and Runtime Safety Monitoring Marc Lorenz, Sophie Kadel, Tobias Braun, and Jan Reich |
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| Wrap Up and Conclusion | ||
The increasing complexity of automotive applications, the challenges posed by autonomous vehicles, the need to master production costs using off-the-shelf components, the coexistence of critical and non-critical applications, and the emergence of new architectural paradigms may have a strong effect on dependability of automotive embedded systems. This situation requires design and validation methods, but also tools to improve automotive systems robustness and their safety and security properties.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the construction of critical automotive applications and systems. It will place emphasis on:
In particular, CARS aims at promoting and fostering discussion on novel ideas and techniques, possibly controversial approaches, a place where researchers and developers can share both real problems and innovative solutions.
Application areas of interest to the workshop focus on the automotive domain but methods and techniques in other transport domains (e.g. aerospace, railways) are also welcome.
April 7 – 10, 2026, Canterbury, UK
The CARS workshop is collocated with EDCC 2026 in Canterbury, UK.
The EDCC 2026 will be held at the Sibson Building.
Sibson Building
University of Kent
Parkwood Road,
Canterbury, CT2 7PE.
Rogério de Lemos
Telephone number: +44 1227 823628.
Email: r.delemos@kent.ac.uk
Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS