Simulated driving system and control device

A control device that is used in a simulated driving system which reproduces a running state of a vehicle that is running on a road, or a portion thereof, while acquiring running data transmitted sequentially via wireless communication from the vehicle, and which causes another vehicle or a portion thereof that is serving as a test body to perform simulated driving based on the running data, and that is used together with an automatic driving device that drives the test body automatically, and a dynamometer that applies a load to the test body, comprising:

• a processor configured to,
• detect, via a communication failure detection unit of the processor, that a failure has occurred in the wireless communication responsive to the wireless communication being interrupted for a longer period than a time difference existing between the running state of the vehicle and a running state reproduced by the test body, and
• control, via a control unit of the processor, the automatic driving device or the dynamometer such that the test body is placed in a predetermined safe driving state responsive to the detecting.

A method of operating a control device that is used in a simulated driving system which reproduces a running state of a vehicle that is running on a road, or a portion thereof while acquiring running data transmitted sequentially via wireless communication from the vehicle, and which causes another vehicle or a portion thereof that is serving as a test body to perform simulated driving based on the running data, and that is used together with an automatic driving device that drives the test body automatically, and a dynamometer that applies a load to the test body, the method comprising:

• detecting, via a communication failure detection unit of a processor of the control device, that a failure has occurred in the wireless communication responsive to the wireless communication being interrupted for a longer period than a time difference existing between the running state of the vehicle and a running state reproduced by the test body, and
• controlling, via a control unit of the processor, the automatic driving device or the dynamometer such that the test body is placed in a predetermined safe driving state responsive to the detecting.