Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment

Virtual simulation environments are widely used to test autonomous driving software by creating highly complex driving scenarios that are non-trivial to set up in a physical environment. However, the current practice of using the virtual test still does not fully utilize its potential to build a muc...

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Main Authors: Baekgyu Kim, Eunsuk Kang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10184011/
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description Virtual simulation environments are widely used to test autonomous driving software by creating highly complex driving scenarios that are non-trivial to set up in a physical environment. However, the current practice of using the virtual test still does not fully utilize its potential to build a much larger scale test. We propose a perspective and research vision to build a large-scale test architecture in which participants collaboratively construct, execute and analyze complex test scenarios at scale in the virtual world. In particular, the architectural concept is built on the existing concept of the Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) that has been successfully applied in other domains, such as entertainment or military training applications. The proposed domain-specific architectural requirements extend the CVE to include the following necessary properties - selective sharing and collaboration - to test autonomous driving software. In addition, the test architectural concept is explained as to how a large number of participants interact with each other collaboratively to build and execute diverse test scenarios at scale. Finally, we explain the new research directions to make this test architectural concept realized for testing autonomous driving software.
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spelling doaj.art-7c048f328a05421c8acba3d9983904d72023-07-21T23:00:39ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111726417265410.1109/ACCESS.2023.329550010184011Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual EnvironmentBaekgyu Kim0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7892-5191Eunsuk Kang1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DGIST, Daegu, South KoreaSchool of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USAVirtual simulation environments are widely used to test autonomous driving software by creating highly complex driving scenarios that are non-trivial to set up in a physical environment. However, the current practice of using the virtual test still does not fully utilize its potential to build a much larger scale test. We propose a perspective and research vision to build a large-scale test architecture in which participants collaboratively construct, execute and analyze complex test scenarios at scale in the virtual world. In particular, the architectural concept is built on the existing concept of the Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) that has been successfully applied in other domains, such as entertainment or military training applications. The proposed domain-specific architectural requirements extend the CVE to include the following necessary properties - selective sharing and collaboration - to test autonomous driving software. In addition, the test architectural concept is explained as to how a large number of participants interact with each other collaboratively to build and execute diverse test scenarios at scale. Finally, we explain the new research directions to make this test architectural concept realized for testing autonomous driving software.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10184011/Certificationcollaborative virtual environmentdriving scenario selectionsoftware safetytesting autonomous driving softwaretest automation
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Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
IEEE Access
Certification
collaborative virtual environment
driving scenario selection
software safety
testing autonomous driving software
test automation
title Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
title_full Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
title_fullStr Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
title_full_unstemmed Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
title_short Toward Large-Scale Test for Certifying Autonomous Driving Software in Collaborative Virtual Environment
title_sort toward large scale test for certifying autonomous driving software in collaborative virtual environment
topic Certification
collaborative virtual environment
driving scenario selection
software safety
testing autonomous driving software
test automation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10184011/
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