Simulation-Enabled Methods for Development, Testing, and Validation of Cooperative and Automated Vehicles

The release and public deployment of cooperative and automated vehicles remains a major challenge for the automotive industry. Despite the recent progress made by worldwide initiatives in this field, i.a. by the PEGASUS family of projects, the demand for comprehensive simulation-enabled development, test and validation methodologies of cooperative and automated driving rises even further. In addition, the number of applications can be expected to grow as well. Especially integrated AI components are inherent complex systems that require automated simulation-enabled standardized methods and tools over the complete development and application chain. The procedures need to be automatically set up and configured allowing for a so-called “as a service” approach. Therefore, a proposal of an open testing architecture that operates similarly to a “bus system” using standardized components and interfaces is introduced. This enables a step towards a plug-and-play testing approach that supports independence and exchangeability of components, systems-under-test, operational environments, scenarios, etc. In this way, such an open testing architecture can be optimally utilized for scenario-based testing, which currently seems to be the winning strategy to ensure safety for cooperative and automated vehicles. Development and testing throughout the entire spectrum of simulation-enabled methods, such as MiL, SiL, XiL, and PiL, are supported up to non-virtual testing on proving grounds and traffic systems --> Citation Information: S. Hallerbach, U. Eberle, F. Koester, „Simulation-Enabled Methods for the Development, Testing and Validation of Cooperative and Automated vehicles” in SATW-Fokus-Dokument “Autonomes Fahren. Treiber zukünftiger Mobilität“, p. 30-41, Schweizerische Akademie der technischen Wissenschaften (satw), February 2022.