An Integral Approach to Autonomous and Cooperative Vehicles Development and Testing

The complexity in cooperative and automated vehicles increases exponentially compared to traditional vehicles. An integrated tool suite supporting the full development V-cycle is crucial to enable cost and time efficient development processes. This paper presents such an approach. For the development phase, state of the art simulation platforms for active safety and automated systems are required, ranging in scale from complete traffic networks, down to component level simulation tools. For testing, hardware in the loop testing is necessary for sensor and communication systems, while a dedicated test environment for rapid, safe, and reproducible testing of cooperative and automated vehicles is required to test complete systems. Finally, for validation and performance testing, a test site for urban, interurban and highway is available.