Reference Architecture for Control Tower to Operate and Monitor Autonomous Heavy-duty Vehicles
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2022
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UDDIN, MOHAMMAD JASIM
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[Context] In recent years, automated vehicle technology has been rapidly evolved
and enabled vehicles to perform a rich variety of autonomous tasks. This progress
in vehicle automation has begun to indicate the possible benefits that automated
vehicles can have on society and by scaling up the deployment of automated vehicles,
the transportation networks will become increasingly more safe and efficient. In the
maturity of certain autonomous functionalities, it has also become clear that automated
vehicles will not and should not do certain tasks on their own. A cloud-based
off-board system a.k.a control tower to operate and monitor the autonomous vehicle
could help to scale up autonomous vehicle operation and improve productivity and
efficiency.
[Problem] While the role of a cloud-based control tower is obvious, it needs to be
investigated what are the mandatory functionalities and how the architecture of a
control tower should look like. Along with the functional requirement, it is also
required to investigate non-functional requirements and critical quality attributes of
the control tower system.
[Results] Based on the investigation in an industry setup this study defines a reference
architecture by identifying functional and non-functional requirements. This
study identifies fifteen mandatory services for an operational control tower in a confined
area. From the literature it is also found that Performance, Reliability and
Security are most important quality attributes whereas from the stakeholder feedback
it is found that Security, Reliability and Maintainability are the most important
quality attributes. It is also observed that there is a lack of using common vocabularies
among the stakeholders and in the literature, there is diversity in using and
selecting the vocabularies while discussing control tower functions for autonomous
vehicles.
[Contribution] The major contributions are the identified functional and nonfunctional
requirements and designed architectural artifacts that aggregate knowledge
from domain experts and literature. These artifacts can serve as a reference
point for autonomous vehicles company to develop their own control tower for autonomous
vehicles.
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autonomous vehicle , cloud , off-board system , control tower , functional requirement , non-function requirements , quality attributes , reference architecture , Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method