Engineering Autonomous Driving Software
Book chapter, 2012

A larger number of people with heterogeneous knowledge and skills running a project together needs an adaptable, target, and skill-specific engineering process. This especially holds for a project to develop a highly innovative, autonomously driving vehicle to participate in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In this contribution, we present essential elements of a software and systems engineering process to develop a so-called artificial intelligence capable of driving autonomously in complex urban situations. The process itself includes agile concepts, like a test first approach, continuous integration of all software modules, and a reliable release and configuration management assisted by software tools in integrated development environments. However, one of the most important elements for an efficient and stringent development is the ability to efficiently test the behavior of the developed system in a flexible and modular system simulation for urban situations both interactively and unattendedly. We call this the simulate first approach.

Author

Christian Berger

University of Gothenburg

Bernhard Rumpe

Experience from the DARPA Urban Challenge

243-271
978-0-85729-771-6 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

DOI

10.1007/978-0-85729-772-3_10

ISBN

978-0-85729-771-6

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10/10/2017