Dominion -- A Realtime Middleware forConnecting Functions in Highly AutomatedVehicles

The Institute for Transportation Systems (TS) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) develops Dominion as the connecting software for all its automotive and some other research platforms. Dominion's Development began more than ten years ago. Since then, changing research topics required to increase Dominion's flexibility to meet current and future projects' demands. This article describes Dominion's basic features and how we updated and extended them to keep Dominion a usable research tool for the future.