Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are becoming increasingly sophisticated; yet questions remain around their safe deployment onto public roads. Simulation can help to answer many of these questions.
Advanced simulation, improved modelling techniques and the creation of ‘digital twins’ will be critical in speeding up and reducing the cost of CAV deployment.
VeriCAV can recreate countless scenarios of varying complexity and run repeated trials in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the cost. This means CAVs can be validated and verified to a greater degree before they reach the road.
HORIBA MIRA is a global provider of pioneering engineering, research and test services to the automotive, defence, aerospace and rail sectors.
The new Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow.
Aimsun develops the integrated Aimsun Next mobility modelling software, which provides an accurate and cost-effective simulation environment for testing connected and autonomous vehicles.
The University of Leeds is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK, with more than 33,000 students from more than 150 different countries, and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities.
This paper, authored by the Connected Places Catapult, introduces the collaborative VeriCAV project and its modular approach to addressing this topic.
Specific challenging aspects related to the automation of testing, test scenario generation, and test analysis are outlined – together with potential solutions offered by the VeriCAV framework.
University of Leeds (UoL) will use their HIKER Lab to explore the interaction of automated vehicles with pedestrians for the VeriCAV project.
As part of the CAV2 project, HumanDrive, which Horiba Mira were also a partner of, Richard Hillman, Principal Engineer at Horiba Mira has written a white paper on “HumanDrive Test Methods for Interrogating Autonomous Vehicle Behaviour”. A paper which looks at the findings from the HumanDrive project looking at test methods for interrogating autonomous driving behaviour.
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ClearMotion, Inc. a global automotive technology company, has committed to a 10-year deal on a new technical centre within MIRA Technology Park, Europe’s largest automotive R&D cluster.