"The Surveyor’s Guide to the Driving Simulation": Developing and Evaluating of Guidelines for Straightforward Road Surveying for Driving Simulator Databases for Development and Test of Driver Assistance and Automation Systems

Abstract

Development of driver assistance and automation systems relies on domain-specific formats for the geometrical and logical representation of road networks in simulation environments. The trend to simulate real world urban environments leads to increasing demands for such data which cannot be derived easily from cadastral or open source geodata. In contrast, specific surveying directly into these domain-specific formats quickly becomes time and cost consuming. The DLR in partnership with OEMs developed guidelines for simplified surveying into an intermediate, discrete geodata format which meets the requirements of both the governmental and the driving simulation domain. From this intermediate format specific simulation formats can be derived automatically through the developed processing toolchain. The feasibility and effort of this approach is examined in an urban use case in Germany covering the dedicated surveying of road sections followed by automatic processing into OpenDRIVE.