COTS-Architecture with a Real-Time OS for a Self-Driving Miniature Vehicle

Christian Berger (1) , Al Mamun Md Abdullah (1) , Jörgen Hansson (1)

1 CSE - Department of Computer Science and Engineering [Göteborg]

The international competition 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge signi cantly fostered the research and development on intelligent vehicles. Recent prototypes from Google for instance are able to drive fully autonomously through the San Francisco bay area for more than 450,000km. Even if self-driving vehicles are not yet available for purchase for customers, technology spin-o s are increasingly nding their ways into today's vehicles as pedestrian collision warning system, automated parking, or adaptive cruise control with temporary lane following. Thus, the upcoming generation of software and computer engineers needs to be accordingly educated to be already familiar with the concepts and pitfalls of these complex systems. In this article, we describe the architecture of a self-driving miniature vehicle based solely on commercial-o -the-shel (COTS) components for the hardware and the real-time operating system ChibiOS/RT for the software/hardware interface.

Mots clés: Safety; Embedded systems; COTS; self-driving vehicle; real-time OS; software engineering

Domaines: Systèmes embarqués

Christian Berger, Al Mamun Md Abdullah, Jörgen Hansson. COTS-Architecture with a Real-Time OS for a Self-Driving Miniature Vehicle. SAFECOMP 2013 - Workshop ASCoMS (Architecting Safety in Collaborative Mobile Systems) of the 32nd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, Sep 2013, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-00848101⟩