Driving-Simulator-in-the-Loop — Virtual Function Design with Consideration of Human Behaviour

In order to be able to predict the acceptance behaviour of the future user during the development process of new automated driving functions without having a vehicle ready for series production, this paper aims to derive a method that uses a driving simulator to virtually simulate a ride in such a way that test persons are exposed to stimuli that are as realistic as possible and thus react biologically equivalent to actual situations. On the one hand, the challenge here is to make the driving simulation as realistic as possible and, on the other hand, to identify correspondingly measurable reactions of the human biological system, with which a valid statement about the wellbeing of the test persons in the simulated situation can be reconstructed. In this paper, requirements for the simulation environment will be derived and, based on this, the realization of the simulation environment will be presented.