Autonomous vehicle safety ("self-driving" cars) and dependable embedded systems.

Phil Koopman Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

• Publication archive
• Slides, presentations, course lectures
• Personal info

• Hot topics:
  • Book: Understanding Checksums and Cyclic Redundancy Checks, 2024.
    • CRC/Checksum book free resource page
  • Book: The UL 4600 Guidebook: What to Include in an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case, 2022.
  • Book: How Safe Is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety, 2022.
    
    
  • ANSI/UL 4600 info page / free downloadable draft of standard (UL 4600 voting version)
  • SAE J3016 User Guide: terminology for vehicle automation
  • 18-642: software quality, safety, security free course content
  • Good Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) polynomials
  • Book: Better Embedded System Software
  • 3-D paper airplane kits (download, print, build, fly)

• Social Media:
  • Safe Autonomy Blog: https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/
    • Essential reading list for computer-based system safety (list of case studies, etc.)
  • Better Embedded Software Blog: https://betterembsw.blogspot.com/
    • Potentially deadline automotive software defect recalls
  • Checksum and CRC Blog: https://checksumcrc.blogspot.com/
  • Follow me on Linkedin

• Archival material:
  • 18-642 Embedded System Software Engineering Fall 2021 | (current-year live web site)
  • 18-649 Distributed Embedded Systems
  • 18-348 Embedded System Engineering
  • 18-849 Dependable Embedded Systems
  • 18-548 Memory System Architecture
  • Graduated students and thesis archive (I am no longer accepting new students)
  • Selected materials uploaded to archive.org
  • Research topics (no longer maintained)

I am no longer accepting any students for research positions or advising. I will not be able to respond to any query e-mails on this topic.

Phil Koopman sayings:

• "Blaming the driver does not prevent the next crash."
• "Getting lucky doesn't scale"
• "Getting lucky does not make it safe"
• "Safety is not about the good days -- it takes only one bad day to show something is unsafe"
• "Did You Think Of That?" #DidYouThinkOfThat
• "Learning how to code is to software engineering as learning how to hammer nails is to structural engineering"
• For autonomous vehicles the first 99% of development takes 99% of the time. The other 1% takes the other 99.99999% of the time. (See also: 90/90 rule)
• Adaptation of a saying from Roy Maxion: "You might forget about the edge cases -- but they won't forget about you."

Personal launch page here: www.koopman.us