Mazda has used hardware-in-the-loop, including a robot, to test and verify the function of a complete car electronic system. This is in addition to the traditional practice of testing and verifying individual units and sub-systems separately. “Increasingly, one system’s operation is dependent on results from other systems. In addition to testing systems individually, multi-system tests ...

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