Nils Katzorke

Nils joined Mercedes-Benz in 2016 as a project coordinator for the construction and ramp-up of the new proving ground in Immendingen, Germany. He has a bachelor’s degree in transportation and logistics management, a master’s in business engineering and a doctoral degree in business administration. Since the opening of the proving ground in 2018, he has been working on advancing the site further. Therefore, he is leading research projects on test infrastructure design for autonomous systems and coordinating diverse technical and economical projects.

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Presentation

Agile scenario alteration: a framework to accelerate automated vehicle testing

With current progress in automated driving, the number of use cases for automated vehicles that can be tested on proving grounds has become substantial. The point where use cases can be tested in an individual, experimental manner has been exceeded. For economic reasons and to increase the reliability, proving ground tests need to be standardized and set up as fast and cost-effective as possible. Hence, test equipment providers and proving ground operators adopted new methods to rapidly alter test scenarios, regarding road markings, traffic infrastructure, vulnerable road users and other traffic participants. The presentations aims at establishing a connection between different methods of agile scenario alteration to showcase how they can be intertwined in a holistic framework. A crucial question in this context is, how physical test drives and digital test drives relate to each other and what potential benefits of cyber-physical test procedures are. Additionally, the presentation will discuss what crucial environmental conditions are currently not available in standardized digital or physical simulation methods. Examples from the research projects for test infrastructure development at the Mercedes-Benz Test and Technology Center in Immendingen will be provided to make the postulated ideas tangible.