Scenario analysis and potential identification to structure of the roadmap to autonomous design

In the long
term, the cooperation between the central department for IT services of the
AUDI AG and the institute of engineering design of the Friedrich-Alexander University
aims for integration autonomous design in the deployment of virtual vehicles. To
structure this task, a roadmap showing and arranging the upcoming steps is
necessary similar to the roadmap towards autonomous driving. However, integration
and deployment of data-driven solutions into the development processes differs
widely to driving. First, the grade of automation is not homogenous across the
development processes. Second, identifying useful solutions to a given task in
the design process is difficult. This paper aims to answer the question how to bridge
the gap between theoretical models for data-driven solutions and the deployment
of these models in the