Real-time SIL Emulation Architecture for Cooperative Automated Vehicles

TL;DR

This paper introduces a real-time SIL emulation architecture for cooperative automated vehicles, enabling safe, configurable, and efficient testing of vehicle communication scenarios to improve safety application development.

Contribution

It presents a standalone Remote Vehicle Emulator for realistic, safe, and configurable V2V message reproduction, enhancing testing efficiency and scenario diversity.

Findings

Accelerates safety application testing process

Reduces testing costs and time

Improves safety application reliability

Abstract

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.