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Sebastian Dingler

Publications and source records attributed to Sebastian Dingler.

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arXiv2026

Toward Automated Virtual Electronic Control Unit (ECU) Twins for Shift-Left Automotive Software Testing

Automotive software increasingly outpaces hardware availability, forcing late integration and expensive hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) bottlenecks. The InnoRegioChallenge project investigated whether a virtual test and integration environment can reproduce electronic control unit (ECU) behavior early enough to run real software binaries before physical hardware exists. We report a prototype that generates instruction-accurate processor models in SystemC/TLM~2.0 using an agentic, feedback-driven workflow coupled to a reference simulator via the GNU Debugger (GDB). The results indicate that the most critical technical risk -- CPU behavioral fidelity -- can be reduced through automated differential testing and iterative model correction. We summarize the architecture, the agentic modeling loop, and project outcomes, and we discuss the technical approach in a manner consistent with the reported qualitative findings. While cloud-scale deployment and full toolchain integration remain future work, the prototype demonstrates a viable shift-left path for virtual ECU twins, enabling reproducible tests, non-intrusive tracing, and fault-injection campaigns aligned with safety standards.

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arXiv2025

Event-Chain Analysis for Automated Driving and ADAS Systems: Ensuring Safety and Meeting Regulatory Timing Requirements

Automated Driving Systems (ADS), including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), must fulfill not only high functional expectations but also stringent timing constraints mandated by international regulations and standards. Regulatory frameworks such as UN regulations, NCAP standards, ISO norms, and NHTSA guidelines impose strict bounds on system reaction times to ensure safe vehicle operation. This paper presents a structured, White-Box methodology based on Event-Chain Modeling to address these timing challenges. Unlike Black-Box approaches, Event-Chain Analysis offers transparent insights into the timing behavior of each functional component - from perception and planning to actuation and human interaction. This perspective is also aligned with multiple regulations, which require that homologation dossiers provide evidence that the chosen system architecture is suitable to ensure compliance with the specified requirements. Our methodology enables the derivation, modeling, and validation of end-to-end timing constraints at the architectural level and facilitates early verification through simulation. Through a detailed case study, we demonstrate how this Event-Chain-centric approach enhances regulatory compliance, optimizes system design, and supports model-based safety analysis techniques, with results showing early identification of compliance issues, systematic parameter optimization, and quantitative evidence generation through probabilistic analysis.

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arXiv2025

A visual study of ICP variants for Lidar Odometry

Odometry with lidar sensors is a state-of-the-art method to estimate the ego pose of a moving vehicle. Many implementations of lidar odometry use variants of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. Real-world effects such as dynamic objects, non-overlapping areas, and sensor noise diminish the accuracy of ICP. We build on a recently proposed method that makes these effects visible by visualizing the multidimensional objective function of ICP in two dimensions. We use this method to study different ICP variants in the context of lidar odometry. In addition, we propose a novel method to filter out dynamic objects and to address the ego blind spot problem.

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arXiv2022

State estimation with the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) method

For model-based estimation methods, the modeling that is as close to reality as possible makes a vital estimation result. In simple applications, it is sufficient to model a system with a single state space model. However, there are applications in which a system changes its behavior deterministically or stochastically. A previously defined model then describes the behavior of the system only inaccurately or is even no longer valid. The state of the art is to use more than one system models in parallel and to derive a suitable system estimate from them. In the literature, this is generally referred to as the Multiple Model (MM) method. Depending on the application and requirements, different methods exist for this purpose, which determine a single state estimate from a set of models. A frequently used representative of these methods is the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) method which will be presented in this paper.

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arXiv2021

Fitting ellipses to noisy measurements

This work deals with fitting of ellipses to noisy measurements. The literature knows many different approaches for this. The main representatives are presented and discussed in this paper. Furthermore, the case is considered when outliers are present in the measurement data. Robust methods which are less sensitive to outliers are suitable for this case. All discussed methods are compared by a simulation. The code for the simulation is available for free use on github.com/sebdi/ellipse-fitting.

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