The development of connected and automated driving functions involves that the interaction of autonomous/automated vehicles with the surrounding environment will increase. Accordingly, there is a necessity for an improvement in the usage of traditional tools of the automotive development process. This is a critical problem since the classic development process used in the automotive field uses a very simplified driver model and the traffic environment, while nowadays it should contemplate a realistic representation of these elements. To overcome this issue, the authors proposed an integrated simulation environment, based on the co-simulation of Matlab/Simulink environment with simulation of urban mobility, which allows for a realistic model of vehicle dynamic, control logics, driver behaviour and traffic conditions. Simulation tests have been performed to prove the reasoning for such a tool, and to show the capabilities of the instrument. By using the proposed platform, vehicles may be modelled with a higher level of details (with respect to microscopic simulators), while the autonomous/automated driving functions can be tested in realistic traffic scenarios where the features of the road traffic environment can be varied to verify in a realistic way the level of robustness of the on-board implemented functions.

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集成工具，可有效测试互联和自动车辆技术

联网和自动驾驶功能的发展涉及自动驾驶/自动驾驶汽车与周围环境之间的互动。因此，有必要改进汽车开发过程中传统工具的使用。这是一个关键问题，因为在汽车领域使用的经典开发过程使用了非常简化的驾驶员模型和交通环境，而如今，它应该考虑对这些元素的真实表示。为了克服这个问题，作者提出了一个基于Matlab / Simulink环境与城市机动性仿真的集成仿真环境，该仿真环境可提供逼真的车辆动态模型，控制逻辑，驾驶员行为和交通状况模型。已经进行了仿真测试，以证明使用这种工具的原因，并展示了仪器的功能。通过使用提出的平台，可以对车辆进行更高级别的建模（相对于微观模拟器），而可以在现实的交通场景中测试自动驾驶功能，而在这种情况下，道路交通环境的特征可以改变为以现实的方式验证机载实现功能的健壮性水平。