Vipp Industrial Phd - Vehicle-In-Loop Verification & Validation
Volvo Car Corporation(Prd) / Elektronikjobb / Göteborg
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At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?
What's in it for you?
The automotive industry is moving towards the deployment of autonomous vehicles at a very fast pace, with Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) planning to offer a level 4 autonomous car in the nearest years. Testing, verification, and validation of autonomous driving (AD) technology is crucial to ensure consumer safety. However, no established standard exists today, and AD validation is still an open research topic. The existing methods used for testing active safety technology in the production of non-autonomous vehicles are not sufficient for the case of AD.
These methods generally assume the activation of an active-safety or semi-autonomous function in very specific scenarios (e.g., a defined range of speed, road conditions, road types) and always require human supervision. Autonomous driving on the contrary must function at all times and should be able to handle all traffic scenarios without human supervision, while ensuring safety. In this vision, autonomous vehicles should be considerably safer than human drivers, which sets very stringent requirements on their validation. It is estimated that standard validation methods would require to drive 1010 km to reach this safety level. This would need to be repeated at each change of software and sensor configuration, which would make the verification and validation of AD impractical if not impossible. A novel strategy for AD validation, integrating virtual model- and hardware-in-loop (MIL/HIL) simulations with real vehicle-in-loop (VIL) testing in a large variety of identified critical traffic situations, is needed in order to enable the safe deployment of AD vehicles in the near future.
Thanks to the VINNOVA-funded FFI research projects iTRANIST and Chronos, Volvo Cars has pioneered the area of MIL/VIL integration, with the development of a steer-by-server (SbS) robotized test system at the Asta Zero proving ground. In this system, a dynamic test scenario is run by a real-time traffic simulator, which remotely steers objects (e.g., cars, soft targets) on the test track. An improved system, including closed-loop control of test objects, will be developed by the Chronos 2 FFI project.
What you'll do
The proposed PhD project aims at defining an optimal strategy to integrate simulations, field tests, and the SbS robotized test system to enable AD validation. The project will be multidisciplinary and will include research in the areas of mechatronics, safety-critical network communications, real-time computer simulation, and big data analysis. The validation of autonomous vehicles is an emerging hot research topic and this project is expected to give significant contributions to the field. The steer-by-server system developed by the Chronos 2 FFI will be the first of its kind to offer closed-loop control of the test objects and will be the ideal benchmark to test new methods for AD validation.
The main research questions will include:
* How can driving data, simulations, and test track be integrated into an effective strategy to verify and validate unsupervised autonomous vehicles?
* How can driving data be used to identify critical scenarios to be replicated in MIL/HIL and VIL tests?
* How can CAE and VIL test methods be improved to predict the AD vehicle performance in real road scenarios?
* What are the capabilities and limitations of a robotized test track system to test critical scenarios in terms of safety and dynamic performance?
* How can real and virtual targets be mixed in VIL testing of high-risk scenarios?
The PhD candidate will be hired by VCC and will work in the Active Safety Computer-Aided Engineering, Hardware in Loop team (AS HIL) team, under the academic supervision of Professor Paolo Falcone at Chalmers University of Technology, Mechatronics group.
Do you fit the profile?
* MSc degree in electronics, SW engineering, applied physics, robotics or similar, with a solid focus on control theory, real-time applications, mechatronics, electronics
* Knowledge in Matlab and Simulink programming
* Knowledge in digital electronics, sensor technology, vehicle dynamics, wireless communication (especially 3G, 4G, wireless LAN), robotics, cyber-physical systems is meritorious
* Excellent academic record is a requirement, and academic publications and/or presentations at international conferences is meritorious
Varaktighet, arbetstid
FULLTIME PERMANENT
Publiceringsdatum2018-09-17ErsättningSALARY
Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2018-09-27
Ange följande referens när du ansöker: 18108
Klicka på denna länk för att göra din ansökanKontaktCamilla Lundgren
FöretagVolvo Car Corporation(Prd)
AdressVolvo Car Corporation(Prd)
VAK building, Assar Gabrielssons väg
40531 Gothenburg
KontorsadressVAK building, Assar Gabrielssons väg
Jobbnummer 4351028
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