Title :
Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Automotive ECU Architectures at Early Design Stages Using EMF and Model Transformation
Author :
Lauer, Christoph ; German, Reinhard ; Pollmer, Jens
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. 7, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
In the automotive industry active safety functions are deployed to better protect the passengers and vulnerable road users in case of an accident. To do so, advanced system architectures which enable an OEM to integrate this new functionality safely and efficiently have to be developed. In order to evaluate different possible concepts at an early stage in the development, model-based approaches are feasible. We propose a methodical approach to evaluate architecture concepts with regard to standard analysis methods as well as application specific evaluation techniques. We use UML to define the meta-model structure of the system architecture, model the instances of the meta-model using EMF and a generated graphical editor, and perform evaluation operations with the help of an MDE framework. The tool chain allows for an easy modeling of system models at early design stages and performing application specific analysis techniques. To validate the feasibility of the approach we apply real-time schedule simulation to two example models.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; automotive electronics; electric potential; road safety; road traffic; software architecture; traffic engineering computing; EMF; MDE; OEM; UML; advanced automotive ECU architectures; automotive industry active safety; graphical editor; model transformation; real-time schedule simulation; road passengers; system architecture; Automotive engineering; Industrial accidents; Job shop scheduling; Model driven engineering; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Protection; Road accidents; Road safety; Unified modeling language; Automotive applications; EMF; UML; embedded systems; integrated architectures; model-driven engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement Companion (SSIRI-C), 2010 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7644-2
DOI :
10.1109/SSIRI-C.2010.37