Optimizing coverage of simulated driving scenarios for the autonomous vehicle Selfdriving cars and advanced driverassistance systems are perceived as a gamechanger in the future of road transportation. However, their validation is mandatory before industrialization; testing every component should be assessed intensively in order to mitigate potential failures and avoid unwanted problems on the road. In order to cover all possible scenarios, virtual simulations are used to complement realtest driving and aid in the validation process. This paper focuses on the validation of the command law during realistic virtual simulations. Its aim is to detect the maximum amount of failures while exploring the input search space of the scenarios. A key industrial restriction, however, is to launch simulations as little as possible in order to minimize computing power needed. Thus, a reduced model based on a random forest model helps in decreasing the number of simulations launched. It accompanies the algorithm in detecting the maximum amount of faulty scenarios everywhere in the search space. The methodology is tested on a tracking vehicle use case, which produces highly effective results.

Methods for Improving the Accuracy of the Virtual Assessment of Autonomous Driving Assessing the safety of an autonomous vehicle is an open problem within the research domain for autonomous vehicles. Next to realworld driving tests, simulation and reprocessing of recordings play a crucial role in validating the correct and safe behavior. Current stateoftheart methods for function reprocessing suffer from several sources of error and hence, might lead to incorrect results. In this work, an overview of the most recent reprocessing methods is given and their shortcomings are described. We suggest the derivation of explicit sensor models and the learning of behavior models for traffic objects. An overview of different levels of sensor and different kinds of agent models is given along with a discussion for the need for statistical and machine learning based models. Furthermore, a novel method, based on infrastructure sensors, to collect the data needed for the derivation of the models is presented.