Five partners have been working together for three years to innovate highly automated testing of automated and connected vehicles. Now the LAURIN research project, funded by the German Federal ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV), has been successfully completed.

The aim of the project was to create a fully digitalized environment at the DEKRA Lausitzring test track so that complex traffic scenarios could be tested in a reproducible and automated manner – in swarms, with real vehicles and at speeds of up to 100 km/h.

As part of the project, tracetronic developed methods, processes, and software solutions to seamlessly connect and largely automate all test phases – from scenario modeling to SiL and HiL testing to validation in real vehicle networks. A particular focus was placed on transferability between simulation and reality, as well as on a structured evaluation of the test results.

In close cooperation with DEKRA, the Fraunhofer-Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme IVI, iMAR Navigation GmbH, and Smart Mobile Labs AG, we have created a technologically unique test setting that reconstructs real accident scenarios based on data and automatically maps them in swarm tests. LAURIN is thus making an important contribution to the safe introduction of automated driving functions in road traffic.

The official DEKRA press release on the completion of the project is available here. You can find out more about our previous research projects here.