Integration of ROS communication interfaces in a model-based tool for the description of AUTOSAR-compliant electrical/electronic architectures (E/E-A) in vehicle development

In modern cars, software functions and services account for a large part of value creation and competitive differentiation. Several tools exist to address the development of such electrical/electronic architectures (E/E-A). In industry, the proprietary tool PREEvision developed by Vector Informatik GmbH is widely used to support the development for AUTOSAR, while in science and research, tools and ecosystems such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) are preferred because of their open-source nature. This leads to a multitude of freely available ROS components whose reusability in industrial AUTOSAR-based projects is desirable. Therefore, in this paper we present an approach to transform models between both worlds and thus to link them. This enables the further use of already existing components.