Automotive Industry Insights

Research Projects – Ongoing or recent

With different focuses and project structures, the following research activities currently deal with testing and developing tools and strategies for the validation and verification of autonomous driving functions. There are benefits for both the study group and the research project: standards are valuable input for research projects, often used when combining different software and hardware components provided by individual partners. Additionally, research projects aim to boost the development of not only individual companies, but of the automotive industry in its entirety, which is best achieved by considering solutions with a maximum of standardization. During research projects, important problems in the field of autonomous driving are investigated, and innovative solutions are developed. Research projects are thus very interesting for standard development, hinting at future development in the field. As one can see from the following summaries of current research activities, scenario-based testing and validation plays a key role in shaping the future of autonomous driving, especially when combined with AI algorithms. Here, we provide some insights into exemplary projects with high relation to testing.