ABSTRACT
The complexity of automated and connected driving functions increases significantly, which requires higher efforts for a reliable validation and sign-off procedure of these systems. Following conventional methods a very high amount of test kilometers has to be driven in field operational tests in order to approve the safety of an automated driving system. Even small changes of the function require new field tests, which seems not to be appropriate. This paper presents a new method to overcome this test dilemma. This method foresees to store all relevant traffic scenarios in a database. These scenarios are extracted to various validation tools such as simulations, driving simulators or test tracks for specific validation tests along the process engineering model. Therefore the database contributes as a core module in a new method for the validation of automated driving functions with a reduced amount of efforts compared to conventional validation methods.
