Cooperative Driving Automation — Highway Driving Simulator Architecture: High-Level Architecture Design

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• Creators:
  Stark, John ; Lou, Yingyan ; Yuan, Cheng ; Slattery, Ethan ; Nangle, Collin ; Gayman, David ; Chen, Eric ; Rush, Kyle
• Corporate Creators:
  Leidos, Inc.
• Contributors:
  Philips, Brian H. ; Nallamothu, Sudhakar
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Automated Vehicle Control Connected Vehicles Driving Simulators System Architecture
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HRT-25-047
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Contracting Officer:
  Philips, Brian
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Recent advances in automated vehicles (AV) and connected automated vehicles (CAV) have increased the need to understand how drivers will adjust to and perform with these new vehicle systems, both in surrounding traffic and in the vehicles they operate. The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Highway Driving Simulator (HDS) is a valuable tool for human factors (HF) research; the HDS’s capabilities can be expanded to address HF research needs related to emerging roadway and vehicle technologies. In addition, FHWA has spearheaded the Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Program. The CDA Program has led to a suite of open-source software tools called the CARMA℠ Ecosystem, which includes automation technologies that allow infrastructure and vehicles to communicate and negotiate future actions with each other (FHWA 2022a). This report presents a high-level software architecture for integrating the CARMA CDA capabilities with FHWA’s HDS system. The high-level software architecture is designed to enable a variety of CDA activities and behaviors to be integrated into the HDS simulation environment and even put CDA technology into the subject cab vehicle when desired. The resulting integrated CDA-HDS system will lead to enhanced human-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulation capabilities to support HF research needs related to CDA that are key to the safety, effectiveness, and acceptance of emerging AV, CAV, and CDA technologies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  693JJ321D000010N / 693JJ322F00192N
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/86226/dot_86226_DS1.pdf
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