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Clouds Ahead – The Transformation of Vehicle Development and Data Management Processes

2021; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-658-34752-9_15

2198-7440

Gerhard Niederbrucker, Albrecht Pfaff, Christian Donn, Michael Kochem,

Simulation Techniques and Applications

Due to the growing number of ADAS in modern vehicles and the advent of autonomous driving, the testing effort will massively increase. The only way to overcome this will be a significant parallelization of the testing effort. Due to a lack of manpower, available proving ground space, an ever-decreasing number of test vehicles and simple cost reasons, this can only be achieved with massive transition towards virtualization. Besides various legal and societal constraints, the technical requirements of a virtual test environment need to be set up, understood and solved. It needs to comprise all properties of a real test environment. It is therefore essential to embed a virtual development process in the overall development process instead of as a separate niche application. Even though all of the above might be in place, it is not enough to run large-scale tests. In the case of large numbers of deterministic scenarios, the virtual development landscape needs to be moved to HPC and the cloud. This is even more crucial when it comes to stochastic / random / non-deterministic testing. Using centrally managed and structured data, ZF Friedrichshafen, PDTec and IPG Automotive have developed a data management solution which addresses the challenges related to the cross-domain use of simulation for the development and validation of automated driving functions. The presentation will give an overview of what such a virtual development landscape might look like and how it can be embedded in the overall development process at OEMs and Tier 1s.