Paving the Way for Connected Cars with Adaptive AUTOSAR and AGL

Connected vehicles offer new business models and improved user experiences. Car manufacturers are aiming to equip their vehicles with software modules and to keep them up-to-date with new services. To ease the process of maintaining the vehicle functions and to offer basic software components over the vehicle's life-cycle the AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) consortium started to standardize basic core functions for vehicle's Electronic Control Units (ECUs) as classic AUTOSAR real-time operating system (RTOS). However, the ever increasing user expectations require that software platforms follow recent developments in software architecture and the AUTOSAR consortium started with the design of an adaptive platform solution that is directed towards future developments. Adaptive AUTOSAR offers software components that will make it easier to deploy a standardized platform for connected cars. A missing component in adaptive AUTOSAR is the specification of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that is required to design In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) provides such appealing GUIs and is open source. In this paper, the new concept of adaptive AUTOSAR will be introduced and recent design architectures are outlined. Further, the combination of adaptive AUTOSAR and AGL are motivated to design a proof-of-concept (PoC) that is efficient to use for further performance evaluation of the software components of each software platform.