Faster Operational Domain Approval – Simulation and Open Source Toolchains for Scalable Autonomous Mobility

For successful introduction of autonomous vehicle operation, public transport and logistics operators need to acquire operational domain approval for their vehicles. They need to prove that the vehicles’ abilities (ODD – operational design domain) match the demand in the planned road environment (OD – operational domain). The challenge is to validate this OD-ODD-match not only with high reliability but also as cost- and effort-efficiently as possible which leads to simulation based methods.

Here, the open source tool GEMSTAR for simulation-based operational domain validation is presented as potential building block for the approval preparation process.