Human Models for Future Mobility

The new DLR Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility (DLR SE) opened its doors at the beginning of 2022. As the new DLR institute emerged from the former OFFIS Division Transportation, it can draw on more than 30 years of experience in the research field on safety critical systems. With the transition to the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the institute has developed a new research roadmap focusing on technical trustworthiness for highly automated and autonomous systems, as described in the article “DLR Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility – Technical Trustworthiness as a Basis for Highly Automated and Autonomous Systems” in this journal. In this paper, we describe how the Group Human Centered Engineering (HCE) contributes to this roadmap with our methods of “virtual test drivers” and “virtual co-drivers.”