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We’ve designed this course to work for a wide range of professionals, regardless of your current level of AI or systems engineering experience. The modular, scaffolded approach ensures you build mastery step-by-step, with clear learning objectives, applied exercises, and real-world implementation checklists. - For Software Engineers: You’ll gain the safety-first mindset needed to transition into autonomous systems roles. One graduate, Maria T., used the failure mode analysis techniques to redesign an edge-case handling protocol at her AV startup - leading to a 40% reduction in disengagements during testing.
- For Systems Architects: You’ll master ISO 21448, ISO 26262, and AI-specific safety frameworks to design robust, certifiable systems. John R., a lead architect at a Tier 1 automotive supplier, credited the hazard propagation models in Module 5 for helping his team pass a critical functional safety audit.
- For Safety Auditors and Regulators: You’ll develop the technical fluency to assess AI-driven systems with precision. A UK government safety assessor used the risk quantification templates to standardize evaluations across multiple AV pilot programs.
- This works even if: You’ve never worked on autonomous systems before, your background is in traditional automotive engineering, or you’re transitioning from non-safety-critical AI applications. Our foundational modules build confidence from the ground up, ensuring you are never left behind.
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Module 1: Foundations of AI-Driven Safety in Autonomous Systems - Introduction to safety-critical systems in autonomous vehicles
- Key differences between traditional safety engineering and AI-based systems
- Defining autonomy levels and their safety implications
- Common misconceptions about AI safety and reliability
- Historical failures and lessons from real-world AV incidents
- The role of uncertainty, edge cases, and probabilistic reasoning
- Introduction to functional safety standards: ISO 26262 and ISO 21448
- Understanding SAE J3016 and its safety framework alignment
- Overview of AI-specific safety challenges: unpredictability, bias, and drift
- Building a safety culture in AI development teams
- Defining safety goals and performance metrics early in design
- The importance of safety cases and safety arguments
- Human factors in autonomous vehicle safety decision-making
- Introduction to fail-operational and fail-safe design principles
- Role of simulation and scenario-based testing in early validation
Module 2: Regulatory, Ethical, and Compliance Frameworks - Global regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles
- EU’s General Safety Regulation and AI Act implications
- US NHTSA guidelines and state-level AV regulations
- China’s AI safety standards and national AV testing policies
- Understanding UNECE WP.29 and its impact on homologation
- The role of ethics in AI safety: moral algorithms and decision-making
- Tackling the trolley problem with structured ethical frameworks
- Transparency, explainability, and the right to explanation
- Data privacy laws and their impact on safety system design
- Compliance vs. certification: what auditors look for
- Preparing for pre-market safety assessments
- The role of third-party certification bodies
- Reporting obligations for safety-critical failures
- International harmonization of AV safety standards
- Preparing safety documentation for regulatory submissions
Module 3: Safety by Design - AI Architecture Principles - Incorporating safety into the AI development lifecycle
- Defining safety requirements at the system and component level
- Safety constraints in neural network training and deployment
- Architecting redundancy in perception, planning, and control systems
- Design patterns for modular, auditable AI safety systems
- Fail-over mechanisms and graceful degradation strategies
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and recovery
- The role of symbolic AI in augmenting deep learning systems
- Hybrid architectures: combining classical control with AI
- Guardian AI: using secondary systems to monitor autonomy
- Temporal safety: ensuring real-time responsiveness
- Memory safety in embedded AI systems
- Secure boot and runtime integrity checks for AI models
- Version control and model provenance for safety traceability
- Architecture patterns for distributed AI systems in vehicles
Module 4: Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - Systematic hazard analysis using HARA (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment)
- Identifying hazardous behaviors in AI-driven functions
- Defining operational design domains (ODD) and edge cases
- Scenario-based hazard identification techniques
- Using STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) for AI systems
- Mapping AI failure modes to system-level hazards
- Quantifying exposure, controllability, and severity
- Deriving ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) ratings
- Hazard scenarios involving sensor fusion failures
- Identifying adversarial attacks on perception systems
- Behavioral drift due to environmental distribution shifts
- Unseen object recognition risks and mitigation strategies
- Risk assessment for multi-agent interactions (vehicles, pedestrians)
- Incorporating human driver re-engagement risks
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for AI components
Module 5: AI Model Safety and Robustness Engineering - Ensuring robustness in deep learning models for safety-critical use
- Adversarial robustness: testing and hardening models
- Out-of-distribution detection methods
- Uncertainty quantification in neural network outputs
- Bayesian neural networks for confidence-aware inference
- McDropout and ensemble methods for uncertainty estimation
- Input validation and anomaly detection for sensor data
- Model monitoring for concept drift and performance decay
- Safe exploration strategies in reinforcement learning
- Constrained learning: enforcing safety rules during training
- Using formal methods to verify neural network behavior
- Reachability analysis for neural network dynamics
- Monotonicity and safety constraints in model outputs
- Robustness benchmarking using standardized test suites
- Migrating from research models to production-safe AI
Module 6: Sensor Fusion and Perception Assurance - Overview of sensor technologies: cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics
- Fusion architectures: early, late, and deep fusion strategies
- Handling sensor failure and partial data loss
- Calibration assurance and drift detection
- Cross-sensor consistency checks for anomaly detection
- Fault-tolerant fusion using Bayesian networks
- Handling adverse weather and low-visibility conditions
- Protecting perception systems from spoofing and jamming
- Perception safety monitors and watchdog systems
- Using synthetic data for rare scenario testing
- Validation of 3D object detection under uncertainty
- Semantic segmentation reliability metrics
- Tracking stability and identity persistence in crowded scenes
- Handling occlusions and partial observability
- Perception system fail-safe modes and fallback strategies
Module 7: Planning, Decision-Making, and Control Safety - Safety constraints in motion planning algorithms
- Formal verification of trajectory generation
- Safe reinforcement learning for behavior planning
- Rule-based supervisors for neural planners
- Handling uncertainty in intent prediction of other agents
- Risk-sensitive planning under partial observability
- Maintaining safe following distances and collision avoidance
- Handling complex urban intersections and unprotected turns
- Negotiation strategies with human drivers and pedestrians
- Safe fallback behaviors: minimal risk maneuvers
- Controllability analysis for emergency stops
- Redundant control path design
- Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire safety considerations
- Latency and jitter analysis in real-time control loops
- Ensuring safe vehicle dynamics under actuator limits
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing Strategies - Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Driven Safety in Autonomous Systems - Introduction to safety-critical systems in autonomous vehicles
- Key differences between traditional safety engineering and AI-based systems
- Defining autonomy levels and their safety implications
- Common misconceptions about AI safety and reliability
- Historical failures and lessons from real-world AV incidents
- The role of uncertainty, edge cases, and probabilistic reasoning
- Introduction to functional safety standards: ISO 26262 and ISO 21448
- Understanding SAE J3016 and its safety framework alignment
- Overview of AI-specific safety challenges: unpredictability, bias, and drift
- Building a safety culture in AI development teams
- Defining safety goals and performance metrics early in design
- The importance of safety cases and safety arguments
- Human factors in autonomous vehicle safety decision-making
- Introduction to fail-operational and fail-safe design principles
- Role of simulation and scenario-based testing in early validation
Module 2: Regulatory, Ethical, and Compliance Frameworks - Global regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles
- EU’s General Safety Regulation and AI Act implications
- US NHTSA guidelines and state-level AV regulations
- China’s AI safety standards and national AV testing policies
- Understanding UNECE WP.29 and its impact on homologation
- The role of ethics in AI safety: moral algorithms and decision-making
- Tackling the trolley problem with structured ethical frameworks
- Transparency, explainability, and the right to explanation
- Data privacy laws and their impact on safety system design
- Compliance vs. certification: what auditors look for
- Preparing for pre-market safety assessments
- The role of third-party certification bodies
- Reporting obligations for safety-critical failures
- International harmonization of AV safety standards
- Preparing safety documentation for regulatory submissions
Module 3: Safety by Design - AI Architecture Principles - Incorporating safety into the AI development lifecycle
- Defining safety requirements at the system and component level
- Safety constraints in neural network training and deployment
- Architecting redundancy in perception, planning, and control systems
- Design patterns for modular, auditable AI safety systems
- Fail-over mechanisms and graceful degradation strategies
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and recovery
- The role of symbolic AI in augmenting deep learning systems
- Hybrid architectures: combining classical control with AI
- Guardian AI: using secondary systems to monitor autonomy
- Temporal safety: ensuring real-time responsiveness
- Memory safety in embedded AI systems
- Secure boot and runtime integrity checks for AI models
- Version control and model provenance for safety traceability
- Architecture patterns for distributed AI systems in vehicles
Module 4: Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - Systematic hazard analysis using HARA (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment)
- Identifying hazardous behaviors in AI-driven functions
- Defining operational design domains (ODD) and edge cases
- Scenario-based hazard identification techniques
- Using STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) for AI systems
- Mapping AI failure modes to system-level hazards
- Quantifying exposure, controllability, and severity
- Deriving ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) ratings
- Hazard scenarios involving sensor fusion failures
- Identifying adversarial attacks on perception systems
- Behavioral drift due to environmental distribution shifts
- Unseen object recognition risks and mitigation strategies
- Risk assessment for multi-agent interactions (vehicles, pedestrians)
- Incorporating human driver re-engagement risks
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for AI components
Module 5: AI Model Safety and Robustness Engineering - Ensuring robustness in deep learning models for safety-critical use
- Adversarial robustness: testing and hardening models
- Out-of-distribution detection methods
- Uncertainty quantification in neural network outputs
- Bayesian neural networks for confidence-aware inference
- McDropout and ensemble methods for uncertainty estimation
- Input validation and anomaly detection for sensor data
- Model monitoring for concept drift and performance decay
- Safe exploration strategies in reinforcement learning
- Constrained learning: enforcing safety rules during training
- Using formal methods to verify neural network behavior
- Reachability analysis for neural network dynamics
- Monotonicity and safety constraints in model outputs
- Robustness benchmarking using standardized test suites
- Migrating from research models to production-safe AI
Module 6: Sensor Fusion and Perception Assurance - Overview of sensor technologies: cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics
- Fusion architectures: early, late, and deep fusion strategies
- Handling sensor failure and partial data loss
- Calibration assurance and drift detection
- Cross-sensor consistency checks for anomaly detection
- Fault-tolerant fusion using Bayesian networks
- Handling adverse weather and low-visibility conditions
- Protecting perception systems from spoofing and jamming
- Perception safety monitors and watchdog systems
- Using synthetic data for rare scenario testing
- Validation of 3D object detection under uncertainty
- Semantic segmentation reliability metrics
- Tracking stability and identity persistence in crowded scenes
- Handling occlusions and partial observability
- Perception system fail-safe modes and fallback strategies
Module 7: Planning, Decision-Making, and Control Safety - Safety constraints in motion planning algorithms
- Formal verification of trajectory generation
- Safe reinforcement learning for behavior planning
- Rule-based supervisors for neural planners
- Handling uncertainty in intent prediction of other agents
- Risk-sensitive planning under partial observability
- Maintaining safe following distances and collision avoidance
- Handling complex urban intersections and unprotected turns
- Negotiation strategies with human drivers and pedestrians
- Safe fallback behaviors: minimal risk maneuvers
- Controllability analysis for emergency stops
- Redundant control path design
- Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire safety considerations
- Latency and jitter analysis in real-time control loops
- Ensuring safe vehicle dynamics under actuator limits
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing Strategies - Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Global regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles
- EU’s General Safety Regulation and AI Act implications
- US NHTSA guidelines and state-level AV regulations
- China’s AI safety standards and national AV testing policies
- Understanding UNECE WP.29 and its impact on homologation
- The role of ethics in AI safety: moral algorithms and decision-making
- Tackling the trolley problem with structured ethical frameworks
- Transparency, explainability, and the right to explanation
- Data privacy laws and their impact on safety system design
- Compliance vs. certification: what auditors look for
- Preparing for pre-market safety assessments
- The role of third-party certification bodies
- Reporting obligations for safety-critical failures
- International harmonization of AV safety standards
- Preparing safety documentation for regulatory submissions
Module 3: Safety by Design - AI Architecture Principles - Incorporating safety into the AI development lifecycle
- Defining safety requirements at the system and component level
- Safety constraints in neural network training and deployment
- Architecting redundancy in perception, planning, and control systems
- Design patterns for modular, auditable AI safety systems
- Fail-over mechanisms and graceful degradation strategies
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and recovery
- The role of symbolic AI in augmenting deep learning systems
- Hybrid architectures: combining classical control with AI
- Guardian AI: using secondary systems to monitor autonomy
- Temporal safety: ensuring real-time responsiveness
- Memory safety in embedded AI systems
- Secure boot and runtime integrity checks for AI models
- Version control and model provenance for safety traceability
- Architecture patterns for distributed AI systems in vehicles
Module 4: Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - Systematic hazard analysis using HARA (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment)
- Identifying hazardous behaviors in AI-driven functions
- Defining operational design domains (ODD) and edge cases
- Scenario-based hazard identification techniques
- Using STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) for AI systems
- Mapping AI failure modes to system-level hazards
- Quantifying exposure, controllability, and severity
- Deriving ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) ratings
- Hazard scenarios involving sensor fusion failures
- Identifying adversarial attacks on perception systems
- Behavioral drift due to environmental distribution shifts
- Unseen object recognition risks and mitigation strategies
- Risk assessment for multi-agent interactions (vehicles, pedestrians)
- Incorporating human driver re-engagement risks
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for AI components
Module 5: AI Model Safety and Robustness Engineering - Ensuring robustness in deep learning models for safety-critical use
- Adversarial robustness: testing and hardening models
- Out-of-distribution detection methods
- Uncertainty quantification in neural network outputs
- Bayesian neural networks for confidence-aware inference
- McDropout and ensemble methods for uncertainty estimation
- Input validation and anomaly detection for sensor data
- Model monitoring for concept drift and performance decay
- Safe exploration strategies in reinforcement learning
- Constrained learning: enforcing safety rules during training
- Using formal methods to verify neural network behavior
- Reachability analysis for neural network dynamics
- Monotonicity and safety constraints in model outputs
- Robustness benchmarking using standardized test suites
- Migrating from research models to production-safe AI
Module 6: Sensor Fusion and Perception Assurance - Overview of sensor technologies: cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics
- Fusion architectures: early, late, and deep fusion strategies
- Handling sensor failure and partial data loss
- Calibration assurance and drift detection
- Cross-sensor consistency checks for anomaly detection
- Fault-tolerant fusion using Bayesian networks
- Handling adverse weather and low-visibility conditions
- Protecting perception systems from spoofing and jamming
- Perception safety monitors and watchdog systems
- Using synthetic data for rare scenario testing
- Validation of 3D object detection under uncertainty
- Semantic segmentation reliability metrics
- Tracking stability and identity persistence in crowded scenes
- Handling occlusions and partial observability
- Perception system fail-safe modes and fallback strategies
Module 7: Planning, Decision-Making, and Control Safety - Safety constraints in motion planning algorithms
- Formal verification of trajectory generation
- Safe reinforcement learning for behavior planning
- Rule-based supervisors for neural planners
- Handling uncertainty in intent prediction of other agents
- Risk-sensitive planning under partial observability
- Maintaining safe following distances and collision avoidance
- Handling complex urban intersections and unprotected turns
- Negotiation strategies with human drivers and pedestrians
- Safe fallback behaviors: minimal risk maneuvers
- Controllability analysis for emergency stops
- Redundant control path design
- Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire safety considerations
- Latency and jitter analysis in real-time control loops
- Ensuring safe vehicle dynamics under actuator limits
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing Strategies - Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Systematic hazard analysis using HARA (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment)
- Identifying hazardous behaviors in AI-driven functions
- Defining operational design domains (ODD) and edge cases
- Scenario-based hazard identification techniques
- Using STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) for AI systems
- Mapping AI failure modes to system-level hazards
- Quantifying exposure, controllability, and severity
- Deriving ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) ratings
- Hazard scenarios involving sensor fusion failures
- Identifying adversarial attacks on perception systems
- Behavioral drift due to environmental distribution shifts
- Unseen object recognition risks and mitigation strategies
- Risk assessment for multi-agent interactions (vehicles, pedestrians)
- Incorporating human driver re-engagement risks
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for AI components
Module 5: AI Model Safety and Robustness Engineering - Ensuring robustness in deep learning models for safety-critical use
- Adversarial robustness: testing and hardening models
- Out-of-distribution detection methods
- Uncertainty quantification in neural network outputs
- Bayesian neural networks for confidence-aware inference
- McDropout and ensemble methods for uncertainty estimation
- Input validation and anomaly detection for sensor data
- Model monitoring for concept drift and performance decay
- Safe exploration strategies in reinforcement learning
- Constrained learning: enforcing safety rules during training
- Using formal methods to verify neural network behavior
- Reachability analysis for neural network dynamics
- Monotonicity and safety constraints in model outputs
- Robustness benchmarking using standardized test suites
- Migrating from research models to production-safe AI
Module 6: Sensor Fusion and Perception Assurance - Overview of sensor technologies: cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics
- Fusion architectures: early, late, and deep fusion strategies
- Handling sensor failure and partial data loss
- Calibration assurance and drift detection
- Cross-sensor consistency checks for anomaly detection
- Fault-tolerant fusion using Bayesian networks
- Handling adverse weather and low-visibility conditions
- Protecting perception systems from spoofing and jamming
- Perception safety monitors and watchdog systems
- Using synthetic data for rare scenario testing
- Validation of 3D object detection under uncertainty
- Semantic segmentation reliability metrics
- Tracking stability and identity persistence in crowded scenes
- Handling occlusions and partial observability
- Perception system fail-safe modes and fallback strategies
Module 7: Planning, Decision-Making, and Control Safety - Safety constraints in motion planning algorithms
- Formal verification of trajectory generation
- Safe reinforcement learning for behavior planning
- Rule-based supervisors for neural planners
- Handling uncertainty in intent prediction of other agents
- Risk-sensitive planning under partial observability
- Maintaining safe following distances and collision avoidance
- Handling complex urban intersections and unprotected turns
- Negotiation strategies with human drivers and pedestrians
- Safe fallback behaviors: minimal risk maneuvers
- Controllability analysis for emergency stops
- Redundant control path design
- Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire safety considerations
- Latency and jitter analysis in real-time control loops
- Ensuring safe vehicle dynamics under actuator limits
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing Strategies - Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Overview of sensor technologies: cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics
- Fusion architectures: early, late, and deep fusion strategies
- Handling sensor failure and partial data loss
- Calibration assurance and drift detection
- Cross-sensor consistency checks for anomaly detection
- Fault-tolerant fusion using Bayesian networks
- Handling adverse weather and low-visibility conditions
- Protecting perception systems from spoofing and jamming
- Perception safety monitors and watchdog systems
- Using synthetic data for rare scenario testing
- Validation of 3D object detection under uncertainty
- Semantic segmentation reliability metrics
- Tracking stability and identity persistence in crowded scenes
- Handling occlusions and partial observability
- Perception system fail-safe modes and fallback strategies
Module 7: Planning, Decision-Making, and Control Safety - Safety constraints in motion planning algorithms
- Formal verification of trajectory generation
- Safe reinforcement learning for behavior planning
- Rule-based supervisors for neural planners
- Handling uncertainty in intent prediction of other agents
- Risk-sensitive planning under partial observability
- Maintaining safe following distances and collision avoidance
- Handling complex urban intersections and unprotected turns
- Negotiation strategies with human drivers and pedestrians
- Safe fallback behaviors: minimal risk maneuvers
- Controllability analysis for emergency stops
- Redundant control path design
- Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire safety considerations
- Latency and jitter analysis in real-time control loops
- Ensuring safe vehicle dynamics under actuator limits
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing Strategies - Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Differences between V&V in traditional systems vs. AI systems
- The role of simulation in safety validation
- Designing scenario libraries for edge case coverage
- Accelerated testing using importance sampling
- Generating critical scenarios using genetic algorithms
- OpenSCENARIO and OpenDRIVE for scenario definition
- Using digital twins for system-level testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for safety systems
- Driver-in-the-loop (DIL) testing for fallback readiness
- Field operational tests and public road validation
- Defining coverage metrics for AI testing
- Measuring neural coverage using activation patterns
- Using metamorphic testing to validate AI behavior
- Statistical confidence in safety claims
- Combining physical testing with simulation for full validation
Module 9: Safety Assurance and Certification Case Development - Building a safety case using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
- Linking safety goals to evidence and arguments
- Integrating ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 into a unified case
- Evidence collection for AI model robustness
- Documenting testing, simulation, and analysis results
- Managing assumptions and their justification
- Handling uncertainty in safety arguments
- Independent assessment and peer review processes
- Tool qualification for safety-critical AI development
- Managing configuration and change control
- Traceability from requirements to implementation to testing
- Handling legacy components in safety cases
- Preparing for audit readiness and certification submission
- Updating safety cases throughout the vehicle lifecycle
- Using automated tools to manage safety case complexity
Module 10: AI Safety Monitoring and Over-the-Air Updates - Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Designing runtime safety monitors for AI components
- Vehicle-to-cloud data pipelines for safety telemetry
- Detecting degradation and anomalies in fielded systems
- Using fleet learning to identify emerging safety issues
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms
- Safety validation of model updates before deployment
- Staged rollout strategies for high-risk updates
- Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
- Ensuring compatibility across vehicle variants
- Cybersecurity considerations in OTA safety updates
- Monitoring driver behavior and engagement levels
- Using naturalistic driving data for safety improvements
- Incident reporting and root cause analysis workflows
- Integrating feedback into model retraining pipelines
- Lifecycle management of AI models in production
Module 11: Human-Machine Interface and Driver State Monitoring - Designing safe transitions between human and automated driving
- Effective takeover requests and redundancy protocols
- Monitoring driver attention, fatigue, and impairment
- Eye-tracking and pose estimation for state detection
- Designing HMI for minimal cognitive load
- Alert hierarchies and escalation protocols
- Ensuring driver readiness during conditional automation
- Fail-operational modes when driver is unresponsive
- Customizing interfaces for diverse user populations
- Evaluating trust calibration in human-AI interaction
- Preventing overreliance and complacency behaviors
- Using physiological signals for state assessment
- Privacy-preserving driver monitoring techniques
- Regulatory requirements for DMS (Driver Monitoring Systems)
- Validating HMI effectiveness through usability testing
Module 12: Cybersecurity and AI Safety Interdependence - Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Understanding the intersection of cybersecurity and functional safety
- ISO/SAE 21434 and its integration with ISO 26262
- Threat modeling for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
- Protecting AI models from data poisoning attacks
- Model inversion and membership inference risks
- Securing training data pipelines
- Ensuring integrity of over-the-air model updates
- Using hardware security modules (HSM) for model protection
- Secure boot and runtime attestation for AI inference
- Network-level protection for V2X communication
- Cyber-resilient perception system design
- Incident response planning for safety-critical breaches
- Conducting penetration testing on AI systems
- Coordinating safety and security teams during incidents
- Reporting cyber incidents to regulators and stakeholders
Module 13: Advanced Topics in AI Safety Research and Future Trends - Neurosymbolic AI for interpretable safety reasoning
- Causal inference in autonomous decision-making
- Using formal methods to verify end-to-end driving policies
- Safety guarantees in self-supervised learning systems
- Physics-informed neural networks for dynamics safety
- Digital twins for predictive safety analysis
- Using large language models responsibly in vehicle systems
- Agentic behavior and goal misgeneralization risks
- Value alignment in autonomous agents
- Multi-vehicle coordination and platooning safety
- Safety in urban air mobility and flying vehicles
- AI safety for last-mile delivery and logistic AVs
- Edge computing trade-offs in real-time safety processing
- Federated learning for privacy-preserving safety improvements
- Preparing for next-generation regulations and standards
Module 14: Real-World Implementation Projects and Case Studies - Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format
Module 15: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Preparing your final capstone project for review
- Compiling your professional portfolio of safety work
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion effectively
- Leveraging the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with professionals in the AV safety community
- Joining standards working groups and technical forums
- Pursuing advanced certifications in functional safety
- Transitioning into roles: Safety Engineer, AI Auditor, Systems Architect
- Salary benchmarks and career trajectories in AV safety
- Contributing to open safety datasets and research
- Continuing education pathways and recommended reading
- Staying updated on evolving regulatory requirements
- Participating in safety challenges and benchmarking events
- Mentoring others in AI safety best practices
- Final assessment and Certificate of Completion processing
- Case study: Safety architecture of a leading OEM’s L4 system
- Case study: Analysis of a real-world AV disengagement event
- Project: Design a safety case for an urban delivery robot
- Project: Conduct HARA for a highway autopilot function
- Project: Implement a runtime monitor for a perception model
- Project: Develop a scenario library for intersection safety
- Project: Build a GSN diagram for a minimal risk maneuver
- Simulating fault injection in a sensor fusion pipeline
- Validating uncertainty estimates on real-world datasets
- Designing a secure OTA update workflow for AI models
- Implementing a fallback planning system using rule-based logic
- Evaluating explainability tools for neural network decisions
- Conducting a safety audit of a third-party AI component
- Creating a test plan for weather robustness validation
- Documenting safety requirements in a traceable format