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Challenges in Functional Testing on the Way to Automated Driving

Authors:
Steffen Wittel
Daniel Ulmer
Oliver Bühler

Keywords: Automated Driving; Automotive Testing; Functional Testing; Test Process

Abstract:
The transition to automated driving poses a major challenge for the automotive industry in the field of functional testing. In current vehicles, the automobile manufacturers are not yet taking full responsibility for the driving maneuvers automatically performed by the vehicles. This will change with automated driving, which means the temporary or complete loss of the human driver as a fallback level in traffic situations that cannot be handled by the vehicle software. During the automated driving, the automobile manufacturers have the responsibility for the vehicle behavior until the handover of the vehicle control to the human driver. The handover requires a reasonable warning period in which the automated driving is to be maintained. Depending on the distraction, the human driver needs some time to perceive the traffic situation and to react appropriately. The warning period will grow due to the increasing automation of driving tasks, which allows the human driver to focus her or his attention on non-driving activities and no longer on a permanent monitoring for an immediate intervention in case of a system malfunction. Extensive testing activities are therefore required to verify the functionality and the safety of the vehicles. This paper presents a systematic approach for the functional testing of automated driving. Especially, the spectrum of possible traffic situations, which the vehicles might be getting into, and the test process have been taken into account by the approach.

Pages: 16 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: April 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-547-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 23, 2017 to April 27, 2017