| Good News | Digauto-participated Project Wins First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of SAE |
| Date:2026-10-30 09:02:47 | Page view： |
On October 28, the 2026 Annual Congress of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAECCE 2026) opened in Suzhou. The conference announced the evaluation results of the 2026 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China. The project Key Technologies and Application of Safety Of The Intended Functionality for Autonomous Vehicles Based on the Entropy Increase Theory, led by Dr. Wang Hong from the research team of Academician Li Jun of Tsinghua University, and jointly completed with the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, BYD, CATARC, FAW Group, FAW Jiefang, Beihang University, China Merchants Vehicle Research Institute, China Automotive Engineering Research Institute, Shanghai Digauto and other institutions, won the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award. Science and Technology Award of SAE  Filed and registered with the National Office for Science and Technology Awards, this award is the highest-profile and most influential industry science and technology award in China’s automotive sector. The Society may select outstanding awarded projects for nomination to the National Science and Technology Awards. Ms. Li Xiaoying, CEO, and Mr. Lü Jiming, CTO of our company, are key contributors to this project and have taken an in-depth part in this industry-university-research collaborative research. Key Technologies and Application of Safety Of The Intended Functionality for Autonomous Vehicles Based on the Entropy Increase Theory Responding to the major strategic needs of the national intelligent connected vehicle industry, this project addresses critical industry pain points in Safety Of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) for high-level autonomous driving. It has overcome core challenges including the difficulty in quantitative mining of unknown risks, insufficient coverage of test and verification, and the lack of real-time protection during vehicle operation, forming a systematic solution with independent intellectual property rights. The project features three core innovations: ONE A SOTIF development methodology based on the entropy increase theory is proposed. Quantitative entropy increase models and control approaches are established to reveal the propagation mechanism of uncertain risks in complex scenarios, alongside a complete development workflow and toolchain.  TWO The world’s first SOTIF evaluation system is developed. Based on safety indexes, it builds a verification scheme covering the full lifecycle of function activation, operation and deactivation. Environment-controllable vehicle-level HIL validation equipment for SOTIF is developed accordingly.  THREE An independent and parallel on-board protection system is developed. It adopts a protection architecture consisting of a Traffic Regulation Compliance Shield and a Defensive Driving Shield. Integrating traffic regulations, driving know-how and accident data, the system enables dynamic identification, reasoning and active protection against unknown risks.  An independent and parallel on-board protection system is developed. It adopts a protection architecture consisting of a Traffic Regulation Compliance Shield and a Defensive Driving Shield. Integrating traffic regulations, driving know-how and accident data, the system enables dynamic identification, reasoning and active protection against unknown risks. This award recognizes the long-term commitment of Academician Li Jun’s team and all participating organizations to autonomous driving safety and collaborative innovation across industry, academia and research. As a participant in the project, Digauto leverages its engineering expertise in SOTIF testing and vehicle-level HIL validation equipment to support the engineering implementation of evaluation schemes and validation equipment for the team. Moving forward, Digauto will continue to focus on SOTIF and operational safety assurance for autonomous driving, refine testing and validation technologies including VTEHIL and vehicle traffic environment HIL. We will keep collaborating with industry partners to advance core technology research and achievement deployment, contributing to the large-scale and safe application of intelligent connected vehicles in China. |
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