There have been several accidents involving autonomous vehicles on public
roadways under scenarios that are normally avoidable by competent human
drivers. This thesis contains a review of these accidents and their causes as
a result of inadequate hazard mitigation. As a solution to this problem, a
novel design pattern is proposed. This design pattern was developed from a
hazard analysis using Systems Theoretic Process Analysis ( STPA ) methodologies
that analyzed the circumstances common to several of these accidents. To
demonstrate the effectiveness of the novel design pattern, an example system is
constructed and tested in simulation against several accident scenarios similar to
the ones studied. The results are then explained to demonstrate the effectiveness
of the proposed design pattern. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/25903 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Barkovic, Joshua |
| Contributors | Wassyng, Alan, Lawford, Mark, Computing and Software |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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