Real-time SIL Emulation Architecture for Cooperative Automated Vehicles
This addresses the problem of inefficient and unsafe testing for vehicle safety applications, though it appears incremental as an emulation setup for existing testing methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of testing safety applications for Connected Automated Vehicles by proposing a Remote Vehicle Emulator that reproduces V2V messages from simulations or previous tests, aiming to accelerate development cycles, tailor test scenarios, and improve application quality while saving time and cost.
The development of safety applications for Connected Automated Vehicles requires testing in many different scenarios. However, the recreation of test scenarios for evaluating safety applications is a very challenging task. This is mainly due to the randomness in communication, difficulty in recreating vehicle movements precisely, and safety concerns for certain scenarios. We propose to develop a standalone Remote Vehicle Emulator that can reproduce V2V messages of remote vehicles from simulations or previous tests. This is expected to accelerate the development cycle significantly. Remote Vehicle Emulator is a unique and easily configurable emulation cum simulation setup to allow Software in the Loop (SIL) testing of connected vehicle applications realistically and safely. It will help in tailoring numerous test scenarios, expediting algorithm development and validation, and increasing the probability of finding failure modes. This, in turn, will help improve the quality of safety applications while saving testing time and reducing cost.