Test Specifications for Highly Automated Driving Functions: Highway Pilot

Kurzfassung

Based on approach and experiences in the ongoing project PEGASUS a concept for deriving test specifications for highly automated driving functions is presented. PEGASUS seeks to establish criteria, methods and supporting tools for the homologation of highly automated vehicles. A level-3-system (highway pilot) is used to focus the research and demonstrate its results. It is proposed to formulate the test specification in terms of a catalogue of logical (abstract), parameterized scenarios. The pass/fail criterion relies on annotating the scenarios by criticality levels which must not be exceeded by the automation function. The talk also discusses ways of systematically deriving the test specification and how to evaluate the tests.