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Efficient Splitting of Test and Simulation Cases for the Verification of Highly Automated Driving Functions

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We address the question of feasibility of tests to verify highly automated driving functions by optimizing the trade-off between virtual tests for verifying safety properties and physical tests for validating the models used for such verification. We follow a quantitative approach based on a probabilistic treatment of the different quantities in question. That is, we quantify the accuracy of a model in terms of its probabilistic prediction ability. Similarly, we quantify the compliance of a system with its requirements in terms of the probability of satisfying these requirements. Depending on the costs of an individual virtual and physical test we are then able to calculate an optimal trade-off between physical and virtual tests, yet guaranteeing a probability of satisfying all requirements.

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    Besides the prohibitively large computational complexity, this also requires an accurate, formal description of possible environments.

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    www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/statistik_7_1_unfallrisiko_42782.pdf.

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    https://www.pegasusprojekt.de/en/about-PEGASUS.

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This study was partially supported and financed by Opel Automobile within the context of PEGASUS (Project for the Establishment of Generally Accepted quality criteria, tools and methods as well as Scenarios and Situations for the release of highly-automated driving functions), a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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Böde, E., Büker, M., Eberle, U., Fränzle, M., Gerwinn, S., Kramer, B. (2018). Efficient Splitting of Test and Simulation Cases for the Verification of Highly Automated Driving Functions. In: Gallina, B., Skavhaug, A., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11093. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99130-6_10

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