  Modern-day autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming complex
multidisciplinary systems composed of mechanical, electrical, electronic,
computing and information sub-systems. Furthermore, the individual constituent
technologies employed for developing autonomous vehicles have started maturing
up to a point, where it seems beneficial to start looking at the synergistic
integration of these components into sub-systems, systems, and potentially,
system-of-systems. Hence, this work applies the principles of mechatronics
approach of system design, verification and validation for the development of
autonomous vehicles. Particularly, we discuss leveraging multidisciplinary
co-design practices along with virtual, hybrid and physical prototyping and
testing within a concurrent engineering framework to develop and validate a
scaled autonomous vehicle using the AutoDRIVE ecosystem. We also describe a
case-study of autonomous parking application using a modular probabilistic
framework to illustrate the benefits of the proposed approach.
