The Cyber-Physical Mobility (CPM) Remote project provides web-based access to a simulation service and the CPM Lab itself, which is provided by the Chair of Embedded Software at RWTH Aachen University. With this approach, users no longer need special hardware, software, or physical access to use the simulation tool and the CPM Lab. This reduces the effort required to participate in research compared to the conventional simulation and lab setup. CPM Remote already offers uniform hardware by outsourcing the simulation to our Chair’s servers and uniform software through the computer simulation of the CPM Lab. This paper proposes extending the CPM Remote framework by a set of formalized problems and a unified evaluation method. These benchmarks detect whether the vehicles have successfully passed through the scenario and evaluate the quality of the driven trajectories. We compiled the extracted scenarios into an event, the CPM Olympics. Thus, CPM Remote now has a fully defined stack for the objective comparison of algorithms for networked and autonomous driving

Self-driving laboratories receive increasing acceptance as they are used in research and education. For research, they mainly serve as a platform on which algorithms can be tested under realistic conditions before getting deployed into the real world. In education, they can add value by creating a reference to reality as they o er an application for theoretical knowledge. In combination with the fact that practical work is well appreciated among students, such setup helps to motivate and thus enhance the learning experience. However, not every institution has the capabilities to create a self-driving lab on its own. Instead, open-source and remotely accessible laboratories, like our Cyber-Physical Mobility Lab (CPM Lab) can be used to engage with the domain of networked and autonomous vehicles. By means of two of our courses, we demonstrate the capabilities of the CPM Lab. These two courses can either be used as groundwork to develop own lectures in this domain, or used directly since the course materials are open-source.

Laboratories with model vehicles offer a middle ground between field tests and simulations. Thereby, the laboratories benefit from the advantages of more realistic setups and reduce acquisition and maintenance costs. However, the efficient use of a fixed laboratory presents further organizational hurdles. In addition, special hardware requirements, complex installation processes, and the cost and length of travel to the laboratories discourage users from getting involved. In this paper, we present the web app CPM Remote, which addresses these hurdles. The Cyber-Physical Mobility (CPM) Lab is an open source platform for networked and autonomous vehicles. Our online framework www.cpm-remote.de, provides a simulation environment and remote access to our CPM Lab (based in Aachen, Germany), making it accessible from anywhere in the world. The simulation environment is outsourced to our servers, reducing the hardware and software requirements of the users. CPM Remote aims to offer a userfriendly platform for making solutions to current research questions more transparent since results can be reproduced and extended quickly with little effort.