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Norbert Druml, Anna Ryabokon, Rupert Schorn, Jochen Koszescha, Kaspars Ozols, Aleksandrs Levinskis, Rihards Novickis, Ethiopia Nigussie, Jouni Isoaho, Selim Solmaz, Georg Stettinger, Sergio Diaz, Mauricio Marcano, Jorge Villagra, Juan Medina, Martina Schwarz, Antonio Artuñedo, Mauro Comi, Rutger Beekelaar, Onur Özçelik, Elif Aksu Taşdelen, Yeşim Gürbüz, Jan Saijets, Jukka Kyynäräinen, Dmitry Morits, Björn Debaillie, Maxim Rykunov, Joan Escamilla, Jarno Vanne, Tomi Korhonen, Kalle Holma, Eva-Maria Matzhold, Carlo Novara, Fabio Tango, Paolo Burgio, Giuseppe Calafiore, Milad Karimshoushtari, Emilie Boulay, Miguel Dhaens, Kylian Praet, Han Zwijnenberg, Henri Palm, David Aledo Ortega, Ercan Kalali, Tuomas Pensala, Arto Kyytinen, Morten Larsen, Omar Veledar, Georg Macher, Michael Lafer, Lorenzo Giraudi, Jakob Reckenzaun, Daniel Hammer, Naveen Mohan, Josef Schmid, Alfred Höß, Shai Ophir, Anand Dubey, Jonas Fuchs, Maximilian Lübke, Andrei Anghel, Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea, Martin Törngren, Alua Musralina, Joseena Memadathil Jose, Marlene Harter, George Dimitrakopoulos

• Autonomous driving is disrupting the automotive industry as we know it today. For this, fail-operational behavior is essential in the sense, plan, and act stages of the automation chain in order to handle safety-critical situations on its own, which currently is not reached with state-of-the-art approaches.The European ECSEL research project PRYSTINE realizes Fail-operational Urban SurroundAutonomous driving is disrupting the automotive industry as we know it today. For this, fail-operational behavior is essential in the sense, plan, and act stages of the automation chain in order to handle safety-critical situations on its own, which currently is not reached with state-of-the-art approaches.The European ECSEL research project PRYSTINE realizes Fail-operational Urban Surround perceptION (FUSION) based on robust Radar and LiDAR sensor fusion and control functions in order to enable safe automated driving in urban and rural environments. This paper showcases some of the key exploitable results (e.g., novel Radar sensors, innovative embedded control and E/E architectures, pioneering sensor fusion approaches, AI-controlled vehicle demonstrators) achieved until its final year 3.…