An Architecture for Experiments in Connected and Automated Vehicles

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 3158

Abstract

Experiments with Connected and Automated Vehicless (CAVs) may be subject to external influences which prevent the experiments’ reproducibility. The vehicle’s computations may require a non-deterministic amount of time; hence, the computation times vary in each test run. Furthermore, in tests that use distributed hardware for distributed computations, the time synchronization may contain inaccuracies and the communication time may be stochastic. This non-determinism affects the reproducibility of the experiments. For reproducible motion planning of CAVs, we require all vehicles to have computations at constant sample time, a synchronization of time, and a logical execution time.

Authors 4

1. Maximilian Kloock Aachen Chair of Embedded Software

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University,Chair of Embedded Software,Germany

2. Patrick Scheffe Aachen Chair of Embedded Software

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University,Chair of Embedded Software,Germany

3. Ole Greß Aachen Chair of Embedded Software

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University,Chair of Embedded Software,Germany

4. Bassam Alrifaee

   Universität der Bundeswehr München

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   University of the Bundeswehr,Department of Aerospace Engineering,Munich,Germany