MRI: CNS: Acquisition of Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for Verification of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

该项目支持购买用于自动仿真和验证测试的实时实验室系统，包括用于联网自动驾驶车辆（CAV）的大型硬件在环（HiL）仿真设施。该框架支持在模拟中进行推理和测试开发、虚拟化现实世界崩溃的抽象过程以及用于并行设计和测试的联合模拟功能。虽然 CAV 的底层引擎正在取得快速进展，但如果没有在显示这些系统的稳健性和安全性的方法上取得重大进展，这种进展将毫无用处。这项工作为复制和模拟现实世界场景提供了机会，并为高级移动研究所 (AMI) 提供了框架，以便为行业和监管机构提供交流安全和验证问题的技术语言。此外，其他应用可以从成果中受益（例如海洋、物流、农业），从而促进未来的合作伙伴关系。 该设施还为学生提供了获得实践经验并吸引工业合作伙伴测试其系统的独特机会。该机构鼓励邻近大学利用其设施应对与 CAV 相关的研究挑战。最后，该集成仪器通过支持 HiL 并具有实时 (RT) 模拟能力的模拟设施丰富了现有课程。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project supports the acquisition of a Real Time Lab system for automatic simulation and verification testing, including a large-scale hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulation facility for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). The framework enables reasoning and test development in simulation, an abstraction process to virtualize real-world crashes, and a co-simulation capability for concurrent design and test. While rapid progress is being made in the underlying engines for CAVs, this progress will not be useful without a significant advance in methods to show robustness and safety of these systems.The effort opens opportunities to replicate and simulate real-world scenarios and offers the framework for the Advanced Mobility Institute (AMI) to provide industry and regulators with a technical language to communicate safety and verification issues. Moreover, other applications can benefit from the outcomes (e.g., marine, logistics, agriculture), thus enabling future partnerships. The facility also offers a unique opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience and attract industrial partners to test their systems. The institution encourages neighboring universities to use their facilities on research challenges related to CAVs. Finally, the integrated instrument enriches the existing curriculum with a simulation facility that supports HiL and has real-time (RT) simulation capacity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.