Vehicle in the Loop Simulation for Development, Testing and Validation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Dr. Pawel Jaworski
Senior Research Engineer
HORIBA MIRA

 

Currently, almost all Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) operate based on information gathered by in-vehicle sensors. Systems which involve high risk interactions with other vehicles or vulnerable road users are tested and validated in controlled environments using standardised static or moving dummy targets. 

With the introduction of V2x communications systems decision making in ADAS, and Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) in future, is likely to be augmented with information received from other vehicles and the infrastructure. The sheer scale of possible scenarios and their variations makes such complex and highly dynamic situations impossible to be reproduced using dummy vehicles alone. In future a combination of virtual and physical tests will be the only economic route for the development, testing and Validation of ADAS and CAV.

In this presentation we describe a concept of using a CAV Simulation environment to enable complex ViL tests of CAV and ADAS equipped vehicles.