Connecting AUTOSAR VFB to Simulink Environment

Abstract

This thesis was conducted as a part of the Architecture For Future Electric-vehicles (AFFE) project. AFFE project is a research project funded by VINNOVA to bring out the next generation electric vehicles based on Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR). The primary aim of the thesis is to analyze and demonstrate the possibility of connecting model-based design environments to the AUTOSAR Virtual Function Bus (VFB) to make the process of development of complex automotive systems easier. The tools chosen for this purpose were Mecel’s Picea suite for the VFB implementation and Mathworks’ Simulink as the model-based design environment. The outcome of the project is that a scalable solution to connect the two disparate programs was created using two different Interprocess Communication (IPC) methods.