Determining the Validity of Simulation Models for the Verification of Automated Driving Systems

As the verification of automated driving systems poses an immense challenge, recent approaches aim for a virtualization of such efforts using computer simulations. This goal, however, motivates a strong need for trustworthy simulation environments and models. As to assess the modeling quality, this...

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Published inIEEE access Vol. 11; pp. 102949 - 102960
Main Authors Neurohr, Birte, Koopmann, Tjark, Mohlmann, Eike, Franzle, Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Computational modeling
Environment models
Markov chains
Markov processes
Markov random fields
maximum mean discrepancy
Measurement
Quality assessment
Safety
Simulation
Simulation models
Testing
two-sample tests
Uncertainty
validity
Vehicle dynamics
Verification
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Summary:As the verification of automated driving systems poses an immense challenge, recent approaches aim for a virtualization of such efforts using computer simulations. This goal, however, motivates a strong need for trustworthy simulation environments and models. As to assess the modeling quality, this work proposes a process to measure the difference between the behaviors of several models. To achieve this, we consider sets of discretized simulation runs to be modeled by time-homogenous Markov chains and under this assumption derive a computable distance measure between sets of simulation traces. If it can be assured that all relevant variables may be observed and no crucial hidden factors are left out, the method can be extended to compare real-world traces with their simulated counterparts.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3316354