ECU-in-the-loop real-time simulation technique for developing integrated vehicle safety system

Integrated vehicle safety system is a key issue when developing intelligent safety vehicles. In order to validate such complex systems before actual ECU implementation, ECU-in-the-Loop Simulation (EiLS) is widely used. However, current EiLS methods only simulate the functional behavior of the target system thus cannot validate the temporal behavior of the resulting system. Hence, this paper incorporates a real-time simulation technique such that the target system´s both functional and temporal correctness can be validated in the early development phase. For the demonstration purpose, we specifically show how our real-time simulation technique aids the development of the integrated vehicle safety system.