Development of a Vehicle Simulator for the Evaluation of a Novel Organic Control Unit Concept

Abstract

New challenges in the field of automotive systems (e.g. autonomous driving) require innovative and highly robust vehicle architectures. These are intended to increase the reliability and fault tolerance of the system and therefore realize the transition from Fail-Save to Fail-Operational behavior. Organic computing is a possible approach to achieve these goals. Based on an artificial hormone system and an artificial DNA, a novel organic control unit concept exists. In this paper we introduce an evaluation tool for this novel concept. Therefore, a simulator physically models the longitudinal and lateral dynamics of a vehicle. For an easy handling, visualization and reproducibility of experiments, an user interface and a scripting language are designed. In extensive evaluation runs the usability of the vehicle simulator is tested. Hereby, real vehicle data is used.