AN ARCHITECTURE FOR OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF THE TRAFFIC SIMULATION COMPLEXITY IN A DRIVING SIMULATOR

This paper presents an architecture that is being used to assess the ergonomics of automatic cruise control systems in combined urban and inter-urban environments at the Nissan Cambridge Basic Research Center in Massachusetts. The scenario can accommodate a large area involving an equally large number of vehicles, with an acceptable computational cost. The scenario also features a high level of performance obtained in the scenario control tasks due to the hierarchical structure of the servers. The hierarchical architecture also guarantees a good degree of control upon specific vehicles in the scenario.