Model-Based Development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop Setup for Assessing Cybersecurity of Vehicle-to-Robot Communication

In automotive engineering, the integration of the vehicle into mobility ecosystems builds a new dimension of complexity in development and testing. As a consequence, existing test environments like Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) have to be adapted. In this paper, we propose a systematic approach to adapt the HiL testbench specification ensuring that the test environment considers the new interactions within the vehicle and with its ecosystem. We illustrate this method by specifiyng a testbench able to assess the cybersecurity of a recently developed Universal Vehicle-to-Robot Communication Interface (UVCI).