Key elements of a 'safety first' test strategy

The verification and validation (V&V) of system safety are among the greatest challenges in the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry. For the associated homologation process, it is essential to bridge the gap between the industry's expertise and the regulators’ desire to define requirements and policies that safeguard AV development. Based on several years' experience that dSPACE has gained in the context of hardware- and software-in-the-loop simulation as well as release testing, a proposal for a comprehensive end-to-end V&V process is presented.