Network Emulation For Tele-driving Application Development

We present a co-emulation framework for Connected Autonomous Vehicle for development and validation of technologies for teleoperation of semi-autonomous vehicles. Despite several technical advancements in the autonomous vehicles' domain, Automated Driving System (ADS) deployments were limited to SAE [1] level-3. Remote driving capability offers a promising fallback option. In order to establish a technology stack over existing and new network infrastructure, we need a simulation or emulation framework, to test the system before deploying it on the road. Our framework enables testing with an actual vehicle and a simulated network, and we demonstrate a tele-driving use-case of a retrofitted electric car.