Automated vehicle and advanced driver-assistance systems (AV/ADAS) technologies present enormous and unprecedented challenges to vehicle product development. These challenges require new approaches, including consideration of interactions within its operating domain’s environments and other participants of the vehicle and its system, disruptive hardware technologies, human equivalent perception systems, exponentially growing software complexity, and an infinite number of road scenarios. In order to deliver an optimal and robust product to customers, very thorough verification and validation must be performed under all of those infinite number of scenarios.
While hardware-based development processes remain a crucial part of product development, such processes are no longer capable of meeting the exponentially growing verification and validation needs alone. As part of any effort to achieve a suitable verification and validation approach to AV/ADAS technology development, it is necessary to identify the critical tasks to assemble such a verification and validation process and the scenario modeling and simulation capabilities that must be realized.
Our goal is to support traditional verification and validation considerations, as well as to assess scenario coverage overall. What is the scenario-based simulation? How might we approach integration of scenario models and functional models in simulation?
In this presentation, we share those considerations in the hopes to drive further standardization and discussion across the industry and tool vendors alike. An example using MATLAB® and Simulink® is also presented as a case study.