Intégration continue / Livraison continue (CI/CD) transparente pour les véhicules définis par logiciel

Driven by the rapid increase in the number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs), current automotive software systems face growing complexity while advancements in software architecture are well behind. This imbalance has resulted in higher system complexity, important financial costs, and significant challenges in maintaining and deploying new services in vehicles. The thesis explores the potential of adopting Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for software-defined vehicles, focusing on several critical aspects: secure software deployment, adaptability of in-vehicle software, and optimization of performance using edge computing. The contributions of the thesis are manifold: (1) A comprehensive taxonomy of key findings related to the transformation of automotive ICT systems, (2) A proposal for a blockchain-based multi-automaker software store to manage updates and dependencies, (3) The development of a virtualization framework for multi-microcontroller systems and an evaluation of these OS-level virtualization solutions for in-vehicle systems, (4) A software orchestration framework that prioritizes criticality and optimizes resource allocation in heterogeneous environments, and finally (5) A consensus algorithm to efficiently offload functions to edge-computing IoT nodes, optimizing resource use in automotive cloud-edge systems. By addressing these issues, the thesis contributes to the future of automotive ICT systems, proposing innovative methods that strike a balance between flexibility and performance in managing software complexity within the evolving landscape of connected, autonomous vehicles.