Thomas Bauer

Dr Thomas Bauer is business area manager for embedded systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern (Germany). His research interests include the design of large-scale system architectures and the verification and validation of technical, software-intensive systems. In recent years he has focused on the usage of virtualization and digital twins for system design and validation. Dr Bauer has led various strategic research projects in the area of model-based quality assurance of safety-critical software-intensive systems and manifold industry and consulting projects with companies from the automotive and manufacturing domains.

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Presentation

Overcoming challenges for early system validation of automotive driving functions

Digital twins have emerged as an innovative and powerful approach in engineering processes across various industries. A major challenge is to provide the operational and execution infrastructure for digital twins on the system level, as they comprise different types of analysis and control components. This presentation addresses the challenges and solutions for creating and operating digital twins for automotive driving functions in practice. The validation platform FERAL is introduced, which enables the construction of digital twins through virtual prototypes and virtual test scenarios by coupling simulation models and tools, existing code and virtual hardware platforms. Results from practical applications are shown.