PLATFORM FOR PATH PLANNING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM

The present invention relates to a method (100) and apparatus (10) that utilize production vehicles to develop new path planning features for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) by using federated learning. To achieve this the "under-test" path planning module's output is evaluated in open-loop in order to produce a cost-function that is subsequently used to update or train a path planning model of the path planning module (73).