1. EuroFOT: A Risk Analysis
About challenges in large-scale FOTs and
how euroFOT is dealing with them

2. 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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3. euroFOT
Systems 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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4. euroFOT
Challenges 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Summary
 Challenges and Risks on
different levels
– Technical
– Organisational
– Legal/ Ethical
 Countermeasures are in
place or planned for
 Confident to deliver a
successful project
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