Geneva, 31 May 2024
Last week, the United Nations Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (GRVA) for the first time met outside of its traditional location in Geneva, Switzerland, in a move that recognizes the importance of global cooperation for developing global autonomous vehicle regulations.
Hosted by SAE International in Troy, Michigan, this informal session of GRVA offered delegates from around the world an opportunity to experience autonomous vehicle technologies developed by companies with a presence in North America. Producers demonstrated the following functionalities: ADAS and autonomous driving solutions, safety driven large-scale simulation, hands-free driving technology, interior sensing solutions, thermal sensing systems, camera-based driver monitoring system, and automated driving marker lights.
GRVA is the Working Party preparing draft regulations, guidance documents and interpretation documents for adoption by the parent body, WP.29. GRVA deals with safety provisions related to the dynamics of vehicles (braking, steering), Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Automated Driving Systems and well as Cyber Security provisions. The group supervises around 8 informal work groups (IWGs) and tasks forces.
The IWGs documents as well as the calendar of meetings can be found on our wiki.
GRVA is currently chaired by Germany (Mr R. Damm, KBA). The Vice-Chairs are from China (Ms. C. Chen, MIIT) and Japan (Mr. T. Naono, MLIT)
Recent activities of GRVA
May 2024
- GRVA Workshop on scenarios catalogue for ADS
- SIG on EMB workshop: Introduction of Electrical Braking System
January 2024
- ADS:GRVA agreed on the structure necessary for developing the new global regulation on ADS until January 2026, on the basis of GRVA-18-50/Rev.1
- ADAS:GRVA adopted the new UN Regulation on DCAS on the basis of GRVA-18-07/Rev.2.
- Connectivity:GRVA extended the scope of UN Regulation No. 155 to L category vehicles.
- AI:GRVA commented ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2024/34 – see GRVA-18-04
- Safety:GRVA received status reports related to steering by wire, electric braking, Acceleration Control for Pedal Error
- Scenarios:GRVA agreed to organize workshops on scenarios for ADS.
November 2023
WP.29 agreed on the structure to develop a UN GTR and a UN Regulation on ADS (see WP.29-191-30/Rev.1). The USA announced that it would sponsor the development of the UN GTR.
Activities under the purview of GRVA
Activities under the Framework Document on the safety of Automated Vehicles (FDAV)
See publication (version adopted in November 2021)
Four Informal Working Groups deals with the programme defined by the FDAV:
– Functional Requirements for Automated Vehicles (FRAV)
– Validation Method for Automated Driving (VMAD)
– Event Data Recorder and Data Storage System for Automated Driving (EDR/DSSAD)
– Cyber Security and Over-The-Air issues (CS/OTA)
Check deliverables in the “Reference documents” section
Inception
At its February 2018 session, the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) acknowledged the importance of WP.29 activities related to automated, autonomous and connected vehicles and requested WP.29 to consider establishing a dedicated subsidiary Working Party (Groupe de Rapporteurs – GR).
Following this request, WP.29, at its June 2018 session, decided to convert the Working Party on Brakes and Running Gear (GRRF) into a new Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (GRVA). The GRRF activities on tyres and couplings were passed to GRB which became GRBP.
Terms of reference of GRVA: ECE/TRANS/WP.29/690/REV.2 (see rule 35)
Annual programme of work of GRVA: see ECE/TRANS/WP.29/20XX/1
List of IWGs and TF meetings:
(Please browse the pages below, containing information regarding the sessions as well as the session documents.)
- Acceleration Control for Pedal Error (ACPE)
- ADAS
- Automated Driving System (ADS)
- Automatic Emergency Braking and Lane Departure Warning Systems (AEBS/LDWS)
- Cyber Security and (OTA) software updates (CS/OTA)
- DSSAD / EDR
- Electro-Mechanical Braking (EMB)
- FRAV/VMAD Integration
- Functional Requirements for Automated and Autonomous Vehicles (FRAV)
- GRVA – WebEx (2019 Q1)
- Modular Vehicle Combinations (MVC)
- SIG on UN Regulation No. 157
- Task Force on Automated Vehicle Categorization (TF AVC)
- Task Force on fitness for ADS of GRVA Regulations and GTRs (TF on FADS)
- Validation Method for Automated Driving (VMAD)
Source – UNECE