Distributed simulation platform for cooperative ADAS testing and validation

Cooperative Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (C-ADAS) require both efficient perception and communication technologies. Experimentation of such systems in real world conditions is needed before their deployment. However, this is a difficult task since it deals with complex road scenarios and substantial experimental cost. To limit ADAS real experimentation constraints, we propose the design and development of a new distributed and interoperable simulation platform dedicated to cooperative vehicular application prototyping and testing. This simulation platform is based on the interconnection of three main simulators: the network simulator, NS3 (Network Simulator 3), the sensor and environment simulator, Pro-Sivic and the ADAS data management framework, RTMaps. In this paper, we present the design of our platform and some primary tests that prove the concept of the already cited simulators interconnection.