Simulative Performance Analysis of an AD Function with Road Network Variation

Abstract: Automated driving functions (ADFs) have become increasingly popular in recent years. However, their safety must be assured. Thus, the verification and validation of these functions is still an important open issue in research and development. To achieve this efficiently, scenario-based testing has been established as a valuable methodology among researchers, industry, as well as authorities. Simulations are a powerful way to test those scenarios reproducibly. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically test a set of scenarios in many variations. In contrast to related approaches, those variations are not applied to traffic participants around the ADF, but to the road network to show that parameters regarding the road topology also influence the performance of such an ADF. We present a continuous tool chain to set up scenarios, variate them, run simulations and finally, evaluate the performance with a set of key performance indicators (KPIs).