Virtual Hardware-in-the-Loop Co-simulation for Multi-domain Automotive Systems via the Functional Mock-Up Interface

摘要

In the last several decades vehicles underwent a huge change from being mainly mechanical machines to digital hardware(HW)/software(SW)-centric vehicular systems. The evolution of automotive HW and SW in the last years shows an exponentially exploding complexity. In this process vehicular SW has become highly diverse, ranging from infotainment to safety-critical real-time control applications. With Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) targeting autonomous driving scenarios, a high-end car of the last decade contained an estimated 100 million lines of source code. The evolution of automotive HW, on the other side, shows an increasing trend towards more integrated architectures, i.e., fewer Electronic Control Units (ECUs) with multiple powerful processors. In today's high-end cars this results in around 100 networked ECUs consisting of almost 250 embedded and graphic processors in total.