AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM VALIDATION

• US 20180089911A1
• Filed: 09/23/2017
• Published: 03/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KPIT Technologies Ltd.
• Original Assignee: KPIT Technologies Ltd.
• Inventors: Rath, Manaswini, Sahoo, Swastika, Barik, Ansuman, Kotejoshyer, Badariprasad S., Vora, Prashantkumar B.
• Granted Patent: US 11,170,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0088 characterized by the autonomous decision making process, e.g. artificial intelligence, predefined behaviours using knowledge based models G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relates to a system and method of validation of automation feature of automobile. The method of validation of an automation feature includes the steps of: assessing the automation feature to be validated; grouping functions of the automation feature into a plurality of functional areas; generating at least one scenario under which the automation feature need to be validated; decomposing the at least one scenario into a plurality of test benches, wherein each of the plurality of test benches are based on at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas; and quantitatively validating functionality of the automation feature in at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas.

Claims

1. A system for validation of an automation feature of an automobile, the system comprising:

a non-transitory storage device having embodied therein one or more routines operable to facilitate the validation of the automation feature of the automobile; and

one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory storage device and operable to execute the one or more routines, wherein the one or more routines comprise;

an automation feature assessment and functionality segregation module configured to assess the automation feature and group functions of the automation feature into a plurality of functional areas;

an automation feature based scenario development module configured to generate at least one scenario under which the automation feature is to be validated;

a scenario decomposition based test bench configuration module configured to decompose the at least one scenario into a plurality of test benches, wherein each of the plurality of test benches is based on at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas; and

a test bench execution module configured to quantitatively validate the plurality of functional areas of the automation feature in the plurality of test benches.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of functional areas comprises at least one of sensing and perception, situation analysis and planning, decision and logic building, or actuation and motion control.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said system further comprises a test bench execution based evaluation matrix generation module, wherein said test bench execution based evaluation matrix generation module is configured to generate an evaluation matrix based on at least one of an automation feature function validation measureand, an automation feature performance validation measureand, or an automation feature safety validation measureand.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the routines further comprise an evaluation matrix based validation report generation module, and wherein the evaluation matrix based validation report generation module is configured to generate a validation report based on output of the test bench execution module and the test bench execution based evaluation matrix generation module.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the evaluation matrix based validation report generation module is configured to generate the validation report to include an evaluation of each of the plurality of functional areas based on comparison of the at least one of the automation feature function validation measureand, the automation feature performance validation measureand, or the automation feature safety validation measureand to one or more reference values.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is configured to perform validation of the automation feature in the automobile in real-time.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configure to execute the one or more routines to automate testing of the automation feature of the vehicle and provide quantitative validation of the plurality of functional areas of the automation feature without requiring manual performance of in-automobile tests to validate the plurality of functional areas.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein validation of the automation feature in the automobile is performed in real-time.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing quantitative validation of the plurality of functional areas of the automation feature without requiring manual performance of in-automobile tests to validate the plurality of functional areas.

8. A method of validation of an automation feature of an automobile, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) assessing, using one or more processors, the automation feature to be validated;

(b) grouping, using the one or more processors, functions of the automation feature into a plurality of functional areas;

(c) generating, using the one or more processors, at least one scenario under which the automation feature is to be validated;

(d) decomposing, using the one or more processors, the at least one scenario into a plurality of test benches, wherein each of the plurality of test benches are based on at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas; and

(e) quantitatively validating, using the one or more processors, functionality of the automation feature in at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of functional areas comprise at least one of sensing and perception, situation analysis and planning, decision and logic building, or actuation and motion control.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising generating an evaluation matrix based on at least one of an automation feature function validation measurand, an automation feature performance validation measurand, or an automation feature safety validation measurand.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating validation report based on output of the test bench execution module and the test bench execution based evaluation matrix generation module.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating the validation report to include an evaluation of each of the plurality of functional areas based on comparison of the at least one of the automation feature function validation measureand, the automation feature performance validation measureand, or the automation feature safety validation measureand to one or more reference values.

15. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon configured to validate an automation feature of an automobile, the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, causing the at least one processor to implement operations comprising:

(a) assessing the automation feature to be validated;

(b) grouping functions of the automation feature into a plurality of functional areas;

(c) generating at least one scenario under which the automation feature is to be validated;

(d) decomposing the at least one scenario into a plurality of test benches, wherein each of the plurality of test benches are based on at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas; and

(e) quantitatively validating functionality of the automation feature in at least one functional area of the plurality of functional areas without requiring manual performance of in-automobile tests to validate the plurality of functional areas.

16. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the plurality of functional areas comprise at least one of sensing and perception, situation analysis and planning, decision and logic building, or actuation and motion control.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, the operations further comprising generating an evaluation matrix based on at least one of an automation feature function validation measurand, an automation feature performance validation measurand, or an automation feature safety validation measurand.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, the operations further comprising generating validation report based on output of the test bench execution module and the test bench execution based evaluation matrix generation module.

19. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, the operations further comprising generating the validation report to include an evaluation of each of the plurality of functional areas based on comparison of the at least one of the automation feature function validation measureand, the automation feature performance validation measureand, or the automation feature safety validation measureand to one or more reference values.

20. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein validation of the automation feature in the automobile is performed in real-time.