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

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

• New book: The UL 4600 Guidebook: What to Include in an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case, 2022.
• New book: How Safe Is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety, 2022.
• Publication archive
• Slides, presentations, course lectures
• Personal info

• Hot topics:
  • 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  • Research topics (no longer maintained)

Prospective graduate students: please read this note before sending me e-mail.

Personal launch page here: www.koopman.us