Advancing Autonomous Vehicle Technology: Embedded Systems Prototyping and Validation

Abstract

The arrival of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is changing the automotive industry at the speed of light. Technological innovation in these self driving marvels 
will change the way we look at transportation. The pivotal role of embedded 
systems that embed the AVs in their environment and let them perceive, 
decide in split second, and navigate the arena with minimal human            intervention, are at the heart of this revolution. Rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, sensor technology, and embedded software development has been the journey towards fully autonomous vehicles. And as these technologies converge, they’re building an amazingly rich ecosystem within each of those vehicles, able to process enormous amounts of data in real time, and to execute incredibly precise control commands. The drivers assistance features we are used to in our basic cars today have led us to cars that can operate completely in a very complex environment. The path to AV wide adoption isn’t without hurdles, however. Embedded systems for the design and validation of autonomous vehicles have their own challenges and hurdles for engineers and developers. There are many challenges such as ensuring real time performance as well as achieving robust safety measures and integrating externally developed subsystems seamlessly. The industry has started to become more rigorous about the prototyping and validation of ideas, realizing that there’s no point in having safe, reliable autonomous vehicles on the roads without doing as much.