From 3 to 5 July, with two years of the project now run, IBM Research in Dublin (Ireland) hosted the general assembly, review and exhibition of ENABLE-S3 (European Initiative to Enable Validation for Highly Automated Safe and Secure Systems), presenting the developments and upgrades of the demonstrators, simulators and videos of what will be the definitive platforms of this project, which is paving the way for automation of critical systems.

Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 R&D program (H2020) within the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, ENABLE-S3 is being carried out by a consortium of partners from over 15 countries. Its remit is to pave the way for accelerated application of highly automated and autonomous systems in the automotive, aerospace, rail and maritime mobility domains as well as in the healthcare domain.

GMV is participating in two use cases. It is leading Traffic Jam Pilot with V2x, focusing on the automotive domain, while also taking part in the Thales Alenia-led Reconfigurable Video Processor for Space, carrying out activities centering on the space domain.

In the automotive use case GMV’s activities will produce a highly automated pilot system to increase road safety, reduce congestion and benefit the environment.

In the space domain GMV will apply ENABLE-S3 methodologies to validate a technology demonstrator under extreme space conditions. This demonstrator, also resulting from this project, will involve the use of inflight-reconfigurable FPGAs to exchange vision-based navigation implementations to suit the characteristics of each phase of a space mission. In other words, reusing the same hardware to cut down costs and load.

This three-day encounter served to audit and take stock of the project, each use case presented the developments to the European Commission in the form of several demonstrators and showed the roadmap till the end of the project.

As a participant in the project GMV has taken part in the various chats to weigh up any difficulties in partners’ collaborative processes observed in this first year of the project and also to define the activities that need to be tackled within the project. Together with its partners GMV has likewise taken part in the break-out sessions corresponding to its use cases.

The meeting also included a demonstrator exhibition day to showcase work and ideas as well as the state of other use cases.

Both ECSEL and external Reviewers of the project were carefully listen to all the presentations of the Demonstrators, highlighting the good technical level and cooperation among partners.