COre software development for BRAking (COBRA)

With the advent of software in cars in the last decades, embedded systems have become an important factor in the automotive industry. These embedded systems contain a high degree of variability. Variants of software artifakts are created for changing hardware platforms, different customer requirements and the different applications that need to be supported. A central challenge (especially in large embedded systems)  is the management of increasing complexity.

COBRA (COre software development for BRAking) is a project that deals with this topic. It is a cooperation between TRW Automotive Koblenz (TRW) and the university of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Software technology (IST). TRW is an automotive supplier that specialized in safety-critical systems. COBRA is focused on the area of embedded slip control systems (SCS).

The goal of COBRA is the structuring and reducing of variability in SCS so that they can be better managed. To reach this, novel methods and techniques in the context of Software Product Lines (SPLs), feature management and variant management are applied. Based on an analysis of the current state, a conceptual framework is being developed that shall integrated all aspects of variability. A prototypical implementation acts as a feasibility study.

Projekt Partners

• University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Software Technology
• TRW Automotive