Simulation Performance Enhancement in Automotive Embedded Control Using the Unscented Transform

Automotive embedded systems comprise several domains, such as in software, electrical, electronics, and control. When designing and testing functions at the top level, one generally ignores the uncertainties arising from the electrical and electronic effects, which could lead to an irregular behavior and deteriorate their performance even using the appropriate methodology for designing the embedded control systems. Then, the studies and comparison on the effect of uncertainty in the automotive domain are important to improve the overall performance of those control systems. Here, we explored the uncertainty in control systems using the Monte Carlo (MC) and unscented transform (UT) methods. These methods have been applied to a mobile seat platform (MSP) and a light emitting diode (LED) used for lighting of heavy-duty vehicles. The UT for embedded control systems has shown better performance when compared to the Monte Carlo method, in order to reduce the number of required variables and computational resources in the simulation of failures and test-case generation. Finally, this investigation brings another application for the UT, in order to exemplify its applicability and advantages when compared with the other methods.