Marcel Weller

Zusammenfassung

The amount of deployed software in cars is increasing. Simultaneously, software is updated in shorter release cycles. As a consequence, car manufacturers face new challenges in the management of software. The project Software-Defined Car (SofDCar) consists of academic and industrial partners addressing the development of foundations for a new software development methodology for future car generations. This methodology demands for new roles and continuous engineering activities during the whole car software’s lifecycle. As part of this project, we research several interconnected topics addressing these challenges. We focus on the modeling and orchestration of car fleets, which includes topics such as variant management of car topologies and Over-the-Air updates. Furthermore, the communication between cars and surrounding systems is investigated for use cases such as cooperative overtaking in which cars autonomously overtake each other. Finally, we put all contributions together in a Car DevOps approach.