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A Multi-domain Co-simulation Ecosystem for Fully Virtual Rapid ADAS Prototyping

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Smart Cities, Green Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems (SMARTGREENS 2018, VEHITS 2018)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 992))

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Abstract

In the last decades, vehicular control applications evolved to comprehensive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) with exploding complexity. Several simulation-driven approaches can ease their development, e.g., model-based design and driving simulators, which are often limited to functional traits. To bridge this gap, virtual platforms can be used for accurately simulating the entire hardware/software layer, while validating beyond-functional properties (e.g., task execution times). Moreover, multi-domain co-simulation standards enable combining such distinct ecosystems beyond tool and model boundaries. Based on these concepts, this work presents a joint set of frameworks for virtualizing the ADAS prototyping flow via whole-system simulation. The focus of the work lies in the design of an automotive-flavor virtual platform, ensuring accurate and fast hardware/software simulation. To highlight the advantages of the framework system, two ADAS applications were prototyped in various configurations. Lastly, algorithmic and system-level analyses are presented, alongside simulation performance evaluation.

This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) via the PARIS project (PARallele Implementierungs-Strategien für das Hochautomatisierte Fahren - funding code 16ES0602) aiming at the development of efficient hardware architectures for highly automated and autonomous driving.

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    Simulation host: 6x AMD Phenom II 1100T x86_64, \(f_{clk}\) = 3.3 GHz, 64K L1D and L1I, 512K L2 and 6144K L3 caches, 12 GB RAM, using Scientific Linux 6.8.

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    Róbert Lajos Bücs, Pramod Lakshman, Jan Henrik Weinstock, Florian Walbroel, Rainer Leupers & Gerd Ascheid

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Lajos Bücs, R., Lakshman, P., Weinstock, J.H., Walbroel, F., Leupers, R., Ascheid, G. (2019). A Multi-domain Co-simulation Ecosystem for Fully Virtual Rapid ADAS Prototyping. In: Donnellan, B., Klein, C., Helfert, M., Gusikhin, O. (eds) Smart Cities, Green Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems. SMARTGREENS VEHITS 2018 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 992. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26633-2_9

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