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Static Software Architecture of the Sensor Data Fusion Module of the Stadtpilot Project

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Despite the advances in automatic driving in the last years, running an automatic vehicle in public traffic is still quite a challenge. One of the main components of an automatic car is the environmental perception system. It processes the measurement data of different sensors and provides the basis for the decision algorithms. As part of the project Stadtpilot at TU Braunschweig, a flexible architecture for environmental perception has been developed. This paper presents the architecture’s static view. It offers an easy to use object oriented framework for creating different sensor data fusion applications for vehicle environmental perception. By defining detailed interfaces between the architecture’s elements down to single classes, algorithms and processing stages can be easily replaced to support the developer.

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    This Waterfall-model in this paper referres to the model in the data fusion domain and should not be mixed up with the Waterfall-model from development process domain as introduced by Royce (1987).

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Ohl, S. (2013). Static Software Architecture of the Sensor Data Fusion Module of the Stadtpilot Project. In: Maurer, M., Winner, H. (eds) Automotive Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36455-6_5

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