Development of advanced driver assistance systems using LabVIEW and a car simulator

Innovative approaches are required to face current academic challenges in engineering, such as increasing withdrawals from studies and a small number of female students. This article presents a remote lab exercise in the automotive domain targeting embedded system architectures and their programming. In the automotive industry, Electronic Control Units (ECUs) become more and more important. Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) can help to increase safety and comfort. The efficient development of ADAS is therefore of high importance and mandatory for industrial competitiveness. Using the presented remote lab, students in electrical engineering and computer science can be introduced to this important topic in an early phase of their career. The exercise targets the development of an ECU that exemplary supports the driver in an everyday scenario. The development environment consists of National Instruments LabVIEW software connected to a car simulator.