Application of the AUTOSAR Standard

Guest Editorial Special Section on In-Vehicle Embedded Systems

“…The proposal was intended to ease "composability" and to provide a transparent implementation of fault-tolerance mechanisms. A similar target is the first objective of the international program AUTOSAR [15] [16], which gathers the majority of the stakeholders of the automotive industry in the world. One of the goals of the AUTOSAR project is to make it possible to separate software from hardware in the design process of a complex distributed technical architecture, thus allowing the portability of application software components, the flexibility for product modification, upgrade and update, the scalability of solutions within and across product lines, and the improvement of the quality and reliability of embedded systems.…”