Design Space Exploration for Electrical/Electronic Architectures in Off-Road Vehicles

In the context of automotive engineering, electrical and electronic (E/E) architectures are becoming increasingly crucial to vehicle development. The challenges posed by new vehicle functionalities, driven by current regulatory requirements and future applications tailored to autonomous driving capabilities, call into question existing design methodologies and highlight the need for a design paradigm shift to accommodate the high data rate demands of these new functionalities. From an industrial view-point, it is essential to design E/E architectures not only from a communication based perspective but also by considering other systems (electrical, mechanical, etc.) and non-technical requirements such as cost, risk, and time-to-market. In this dissertation, we present a tool for performing automatic design space exploration for E/E architectures in off-road vehicles, aimed at overcoming the limitations of current design processes and system architectures. Our approach not only addresses academic perspectives but also integrates the aforementioned industrial requirements. The effectiveness of our framework is validated through case studies of industrial relevance.