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TE16 Enabler 16
Modular platform (TRL5/6) – Architecture and specifications for the development, testing, and certification of modular and safe computing platforms for onboard and trackside systems which host safety-related and non-safety related functions, including standardized approaches for monitoring, diagnostics, and configuration management.
Project: FP2 - R2DATO (01/12/2022 - 31/05/2026)
Work Packages
Currently available work packages:
WP26 Modular Platforms Specification
This work package focuses on developing the architecture and specifications for the development, testing, and certification of modular and safe computing platforms for onboard and trackside systems which host safety-related and non-safety related functions, incl. standardized approaches for monitoring, diagnostics, and configuration management. As depicted in the System Pillar Report, the envisioned computing platforms shall separate SW from HW to resolve several issues with obsolescence, upgradeability as well as underlying services for communication, remote maintenance, and security.
WP36 Onboard Platform Demonstrator
The aim of this demonstrator is to implement and validate a prototype and blueprint of the future-proof onboard connectivity and IT platforms that are required in a highly automated rail system, with the expectation that latest from EU-RAIL phase 2 on all larger-scale demonstrators would utilize these platforms. The aim of this demonstrator is to implement and validate in a lab environment (up to TRL 5/6) how railway application(s) can be hosted on a modular computing platform, making use of a safe Runtime Environment (RTE), standardized Platform Independent (PI) API, onboard FRMCS functions and a unified diagnostics service API. As a key outcome, the demonstrator will help to determine an appropriate level of onboard platform modularity and aggregation (e.g., by utilising a common hardware pool, most likely through the usage of virtualisation or hypervisor technology), and to prove the feasibility of hardware independent integrability and potential certifiability as a blueprint for EU-RAIL phase 2 and future larger-scale demonstrators.
Public Deliverables
Currently available deliverables:
D26.1 High-level consolidation of prior work and agreement on the Modular Platform specification to happen in FP2-R2DATO
D26.1 – High-level consolidation – 21/06/2024
This deliverable will provide a high level consolidation of the prior work related to Modular Platforms and will capture the agreements of the partners regarding which aspects related to Modular Platforms will be specified within R2DATO.
D26.2 Intermediate Modular Platform requirements, architecture and specification
D26.2 – Intermediate Modular Platform requirements, architecture and specification – 21/06/2024
This deliverable will capture an intermediate stage of the derived requirements on Modular Platforms, and the derived architecture and specification, for instance serving as input to the Onboard Platform Demonstrator in WP 36.
D26.3 Final Modular Platform requirements, architecture and specification
D26.4 Summary of findings and recommendations from study on modular certification and homologation
D36.1 Demonstrator specification
D36.2 Demonstrator implementation phase 1 concluded and test results consolidated
D36.3 Demonstrator implementation phase 2 concluded and test results consolidated
D36.4 Demonstrator implementation phase 3 concluded and test results consolidated
D36.5 Onboard platform blueprint for later EU-RAIL phases established and disseminated
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