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DEVELOPMENT SIMULATION AND TESTING

Vehicle-in-the-Loop

Real-world Vehicle Tests

Combined with Virtual

Scenarios

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AUTHORS Future driver assistance functions are supporting ever greater parts
of driving scenarios in increasingly complex situations. This calls for
new approaches to safe and resource-conserving testing and valida-
tion. IAV’s vehicle-in-the-loop approach aims at bridging the gap

between simulation-based test environments and real-world vehicle
Dr.-Ing. Matthias Butenuth tests by adding virtual scenarios to the real-world test environment.
is Head of the Predictive Safety
Department at IAV in Munich
(Germany).

BRIDGING THE GAP and test track trials are validated in the
field (real-world driving in road traffic).
At present, driver assistance functions Future driver assistance systems are
Dr. Roland Kallweit are validated using Model, Software and supporting ever greater parts of driving
is Team Manager for Predictive Hardware-in-the-Loop (MiL, SiL, HiL) scenarios and increasingly act automati-
Safety at IAV in Ingolstadt tests as well as by investigating vehicles cally even in complex situations. In this
(Germany).
on proving grounds and on the road. process, they are increasingly intercon-
Even before the first test vehicles are nected with other systems in the vehicle,
suitable for test drives, tests are per- communicate with their environment
formed in simulation-based test environ- and merge data from various sensor sys-
ments. As soon as all of the necessary tems to detect the traffic situation as
components and the target vehicle are accurately as possible and define appro-
available, real-world test drives are car- priate actions.
Paul Prescher ried out in the form of guided or free As a consequence of this, a new pro-
is Team Manager for Predictive
Safety at IAV in Ingolstadt tests on the test track. Afterwards, the cess is needed for calibrating as well as
(Germany). assumptions from the simulation runs for testing and validating driver assis-
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