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OCTOBER 22, 23, 24, 2019 THE SUBURBAN COLLECTION SHOWPLACE, NOVI, MI, USA DISCOVER BRAND-NEW AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGIES AND TESTING PARTNERS! EXPO 2019 Novi - Michigan FREE-TO-ATTEND EXHIBITION! Conference rates apply – see website for details PLUS TWO LEADING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYMPOSIUMS! #avtexpousa www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan 100+ EXHIBITORS including AV/ADAS specialists at the adjacent Automotive Testing Expo SHOW PREVIEW

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Page 1: THE SUBURBAN COLLECTION SHOWPLACE, NOVI, MI, USA … · october 22, 23, 24, 2019 the suburban collection showplace, novi, mi, usa discover brand-new autonomous technologies and testing

OCTOBER 22, 23, 24, 2019THE SUBURBAN COLLECTION SHOWPLACE, NOVI, MI, USA

DISCOVER BRAND-NEW AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGIES AND TESTING PARTNERS!

EXPO 2019Novi - Michigan

FREE-TO-ATTEND EXHIBITION!

Conference rates apply – see website for details

PLUS TWO LEADING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYMPOSIUMS!

#avtexpousa

www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan

100+ EXHIBITORSincluding AV/ADAS specialists at the

adjacent Automotive Testing Expo

SHOW PREVIEW

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TWO DEDICATED

CONFERENCESfeaturing 80+

expert speakerssee website for rates

EXCLUSIVE

American Center for Mobility

Live Demo Day

see page 6

100+ EXHIBITORSincluding AV/ADAS specialists at the

adjacent Automotive Testing Expo

see back page for list

See the latest AV development, testing and validation technologies!

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1 www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan ▶ Register online now for your free exhibition entry pass! ◀

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With well over 100 exhibitors showcasing the latest test and next-generation enabling technologies specifically

developed for AVs at this October’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Novi, Michigan (as well as at the adjacent Automotive Testing Expo), the show is a must-attend event for anyone working on the path toward driverless vehicles.

There are also two dedicated pay-to-attend conferences: the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium, and the ADAS & AV Legal Issues & Liabilities World Congress. More than 80 experts across both conferences will share exclusive insights from their latest research and programs, with speakers from organizations such as VW, Intel, Siemens, Uber and General Motors.

The Symposium will bring together the world’s leading engineers in the field of autonomous vehicle research, testing, validation and development. Meanwhile, the World Congress will help to clarify the legal status and risks of an entirely new kind of vehicle. Speakers will discuss areas such as product liability and the state of legislation, as well as privacy and cybersecurity.

As the event is co-located with Automotive Testing Expo (North America’s largest vehicle test and development technology show), visitors to Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo, Novi, Michigan, can see countless more ADAS and AV validation systems and service providers – right next door – for free!

And the show experience continues for a ‘fourth’ day, courtesy of the American Center for Mobility, which will stage a Live Demo Day on Friday, October 25, where visitors can see some of the latest ADAS and AV testing tools put through their paces at one of North America’s leading proving grounds! Don’t delay: register – for FREE – today!

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLETECHNOLOGY EXPO 2019

OCTOBER 22, 23, 24, 2019, NOVI, MICHIGAN, USA

www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan

REGISTER NOWfor your free exhibition entry pass!

#avtexpousa

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Positioning dataVisitors looking for accurate positioning equipment should stop by Topcon, which develops GNSS receivers with an ever-expanding supporting network. The GNSS receivers work together with the TopNETlive real-time GNSS network correction service to receive differential correction data.

The company will also showcase the IP-S3 compact, fully integrated 3D laser and digital imagery mobile mapping system. This uses three key technologies to create HD maps. A dual-frequency GNSS receiver establishes a geospatial position, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) provides vehicle attitude, and a connection to the vehicle or to an external wheel encoder obtains odometry information. These three technologies work together in tandem to sustain a highly accurate 3D position for the vehicle, even in locations where satellite signals can be blocked by structures, trees or other objects.

Topcon Positioning Group Booth: AV332

Path planning softwareAimsun Auto is a new software platform for large-scale design and validation of path planning algorithms for self-driving vehicles. The new software was presented for the first time at the European edition of Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo, back in May.

The software allows test engineers to synthetically generate, execute, and analyze tens of thousands of scenarios, to test the path planning of automated driving algorithms in a safe, repeatable virtual environment.

With Aimsun’s Auto suite, erratic but plausible scenarios can be introduced to simulations in an efficient way. It then introduces the required sophistication and automation to detect rogue events and bring them to the attention of the developer once the simulations have finished.

Aimsun Auto offers seamless integration with 3D sensor simulation tools, such as Simcenter PreScan, and 3D visualization engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. To speed up the process, it also allows for automatic creation of wide-area simulation models from imported high-definition maps. Alternatively, it can also work with proprietary HD maps.

SYNTHETIC DATA FOR

TRAINING AND TESTING

One of the major disadvantages of using real-world data for the training and testing of self-driving vehicles is that it is practically impossible to record and process all possible scenarios and, even then, the quality is not always guaranteed. Anyverse provides virtual, synthetic data that is physically correct and as close to reality as possible. These attributes contrast Anyverse data with often-used data from game engines, which may look nice, but which is often not physics-accurate. What’s more, Anyverse’s data is highly scalable and comes complete with metadata including lighting, sensor and camera specifications. This gives clients fine control over data set production and variability, counting on maximum similarity with reality.

Anyverse Booth: AV222

TEST & DEVELOPMENT

Symposium, Novi, Michigan

DAY 1: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

11:00am – From massive simulation to DIL simulation

for AV validation

Andras will outline a

complete virtual testing

chain with a focus on the

needs of driver-in-the-

loop simulation tools

for the necessary driver

acceptance level, and

how the HMI design can

reflect those needs.

ANDRAS KEMENYIMMERSIVE SIMULATION AND VR, RENAULT

SPEAKERSPOTLIGHT

Aimsun Booth: AV335

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Pedestrian detection app!iMPORTANT is a free mobile app for pedestrian safety in a world of AVs. The app sends the pedestrian’s coordinates to surrounding vehicles so that they can slow down and apply the brakes if needed. Thanks to the latest mobile technologies and artificial intelligence, !important claims it has developed an OEM-ready technology that can be implemented on the road and used for virtual testing to ultimately save lives around the world. So far, it has a presence in North America and Europe, but over the coming months, it is looking to extend its reach to other continents.

Simulation toolchainTo simplify the simulation process, MSC has come up with Virtual Test Drive (VTD), a complete autonomous driver development toolchain. It covers the full range from the generation of 3D content to the simulation of complex traffic scenarios and, finally, to the simulation of either simplified or physically driven sensors. It can be used for SIL, DIL, VIL and HIL, and may also be operated in co-simulations with third-party or custom packages.

VTD extends the realistic baseline with domain generalization and data augmentation, enabling the generation of scenario populations with the operational design domain. It delivers a consistent data flow via industry-standard file formats into modules for scenario definition, traffic simulation, image generation, sound simulation, and data processing.

MSC’s APIs support the modeling of a wide range of sensors, as well as hazards and safety augmentation. A scalable cloud execution runner supports large numbers of scenarios and enables probabilistic interpretation of results. VTD goes beyond basic sensor models, with support for sensor limitations, rich error models, and material management and physics, for maximum realism.

AV design softwareSiemens will be demonstrating the newest addition to its Simcenter PreScan software. It combines the strengths of PreScan with HEEDS design exploration software. The new validation and verification framework for ADAS and AVs starts from requirements and vehicle-level system architecture, and makes it possible to generate an endless number of virtual scenarios to test sensor behavior, sensor fusion, decisional AI, lower-level controls, driver behavior, etc. What’s more, this whole process is embedded in realistic environments and scenarios.

The suite can combine ego vehicle sensors, controllers, AI, and vehicle dynamics models with a tremendous number of scenarios. It also helps CAE engineers to understand the millions of results generated without analyzing them all.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TESTINGA new generation of devices that are capable of capturing the complex traffic of today’s heterogeneous electronic architectures will be showcased by Technica Engineering. Technica promises unprecedented modularity and state-of-the-art time synchronization for the new capture modules. Its products address issues such as startup time, capturing the traffic of

point-to-point connections, and ensuring integrity of the captured data.

Products on show at Technica’s booth include the MediaGateway, the different SPY devices for 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1, and complementing software products, such as the ANDi Tool (Automotive Network Diagnoser).

Siemens Industry Software and ServicesBooth: AV200

MSC Software Booth: AV205

Technica Engineering Booth: AV118

!iMPORTANT Booth: TBC

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High-performance dataloggerAt Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo, b-plus will present the latest link in its toolchain for decoupling, acquiring and recording sensor data, along with ingest into the data center of raw sensor data streams and vehicle bus data. BRICKplus is a high-performance datalogger with up to 16Gbit/s of recording capacity.

The BRICKplus is equipped with twice the main memory of the regular BRICK variant to allow for increased flexibility for software applications, especially through the use of a larger ring buffer for data.

By using current server RAID technology, the current maximum logging speed doubles to 16Gbit/s. This is of particular interest for the development of new sensor technologies. The

increasingly high-resolution sensors generate larger amounts of data that have to be recorded synchronously. Thanks to the holistic recording of this real data, subsequent tests can be carried out properly to contribute to the prevention of accidents.

As well as the memory, b-plus has also doubled the storage unit of the BRICKplus system, to 32TB. This newly developed storage unit, based on the latest PCIe RAID technology and the latest generation of SSDs, guarantees maximum reliability and speed.

b-plus Booth: AV228

HD mappingPhase One Industrial will be showcasing its technology for creating HD maps, which is accessible and available today. Its high-resolution, medium-format cameras and image-processing systems are designed and manufactured specifically for high-definition mapping and can record vertically accurate features – something that is typically missing from normal maps.

Phase One offers cameras for high-definition imagery ranging from 50MP to 190MP, in CIR, RGB and 4-band multispectral. The cameras are ready for integration with multiple UAV or mobile mapping platforms. Also on display will be Phase One’s new long-range lenses designed for aerial and ground inspection.

Phase One USA Booth: AV312

Validation solutionCMORE Automotive has created a complete validation solution for AVs. It supports customized test and validation concepts, as well as the complete planning and conducting of tests in the laboratory, on the test track or on open roads, and provides the necessary equipment and personnel for performing test drives.C.LABEL is its semi-automated data annotation software that is designed to handle complex annotation projects. It supports both high-quality manual annotation and highly automated annotation for 2D and 3D data. C.FRAME, meanwhile, is the company’s data acquisition, visualization and simulation software.

CMORE Automotive Booth: AV345

Rugged Science Booth: AV114

o for o r free e hibition entr pass!

: AV114

COMPUTING IN THE FIELD

Rugged Science will display its new EVS-1000, which offers a robust computing platform for in-vehicle autonomous applications. The EVS-1000 is packed with computing power, combining Intel’s 7th Generation Core series CPUs with NVIDIA’s GTX1050T GPU. As such, it supports NVIDIA’s Pascal GPU architecture and up to 8k of video resolution, making it flexible and ideal for applications such as AI deep learning, autonomous vehicle control, and machine vision. Finally, The EVS-1000 is ideally suited to operation in harsh environments, because of its ability to handle a wide range of operating temperatures, and its fanless, solid-state design.

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ATTEND A LIVE DEMO AT THE ACM!A new Live Demo Day in association with the American Center for Mobility, Michigan will take

place on Friday, October 25, 2019, as part of the Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo and Automotive Testing Expo events in Novi, effectively extending both to a further, fourth day!

See some of the best new AV systems, test methods and technologies put through their paces at one of North America’s leading proving grounds. Experience a range of live demonstrations by leading AV test and development companies, including advanced

pedestrian detection and AEB systems, ‘cut-in’ events, signal loss simulation, and guided soft targets – all within the ACM’s extensive facilities, which include a 2.5-mile highway loop,

a 700ft curved tunnel, two double overpasses, intersections, and roundabouts.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2019, 9AM-4PMWILLOW RUN, YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN 48198, USA

Visit www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan to register to attend the live demos!

The ACM is just a half-hour drive from the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi and only 20 minutes from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

AVL has confirmed that it will demonstrate its AVL-DRIVE Autonomous vehicle assessment system on a production Tesla Model 3 at the ACM as part of the Live Demo Day. The in-vehicle demonstration will show participants a live view of the AVL-DRIVE Autonomous

system in operation and will provide an overview of the depth of data and analysis that it can gather. In addition, an interference vehicle will show system response to cut-in events.

Racelogic will demonstrate its VBOX Indoor Positioning System (VIPS), which provides a highly accurate way of measuring speed, position and attitude (pitch/roll/yaw) in areas where GPS is not available – such as inside the ACM’s curved tunnel (pictured). The system

offers unrivaled positional accuracy at better than 2cm. The system can be used in facilities of all sizes and seamlessly switches between indoors and outdoors.

AB Dynamics has confirmed it will present an integrated range of tools for ADAS and AV testing during the Live Demo Day, via two automated driving tests: an AEB test using AB Dynamics’ by-wire-controlled Flex-0 vehicle, along with a pilotable

platform LaunchPad to represent vulnerable road users; and a higher-speed ‘cut-in’ test using the company’s Guided Soft Target (GST) vehicle and three other vehicles.

Keysight will show how to test a vehicle’s connectivity (2/3/4/5G, V2X, wi-fi, Bluetooth) in a repeatable environment, simulating the vehicle in a live network and in a congested environment, while iterating environmental variables such as weather, angle of

arrival, interference, and fading, to augment track environments. It will also profile the latest version of PenTester, supporting cellular, Bluetooth and wi-fi attack surfaces.

FIRST LIVE DEMO DAY PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED, MORE TO FOLLOW - SEE WEBSITE!

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Ruggedized computersEnsure that your ADAS or AV system is safely and reliably processing critical sensor fusion data with Crystal Group RIA (Rugged Intelligence Appliance). With its reliable rugged chassis and components, the RIA server ensures fast and expert engineering and superior computing performance with Intel Cascade Lake scalable processors, Nvidia GPUs, Altera camera gateway cards, 2 TB DDR4 memory, 10-32VDC input power, and powerful cooling. The system is ruggedized to withstand potholes, collisions and extreme temperatures that could cause traditional systems to fail. The RIA system also minimizes weight and space usage, at 16kg (35 lb) and 0.0234m3.

Positioning hardware and softwareA number of compact inertial measurement units (IMU), attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS), and inertial navigation systems (INS) will be on SBG Systems’ booth. The Ellipse series, with 0.1° RMS, is the company’s most advanced miniature inertial sensor for navigation and motion. The extra-small Ellipse Micro weighs only 10g. The Ekinox inertial navigation systems, with 0.03° RMS, bring robust and cost-effective MEMS to the tactical grade, striking a balance between size, accuracy and price. Finally, SBG’s Apogee series (0.01° RMS) delivers the best performance under GNSS outage.

SBG’s sensors achieve fusion with the GNSS receiver and the odometer to ensure robust positioning in all conditions, including forests, tunnels and urban canyons. The company also designs

specific motion algorithms dedicated to land vehicles, with CAN protocol integration.

To offer a full solution, SBG has also recently developed its own INS/GNSS post-processing software. Qinertia enhances SBG’s inertial navigation systems performance by post-processing inertial data with raw GNSS observables. According to SBG, Qinertia is intuitive and easy to use and is the fastest post-processing software currently available on the market.

SBG Systems Booth: AV230

SENSOR FUSION IN THE LABTo develop and validate environment sensors for autonomous systems, the raw data captured by the sensors has to be fed to sensor ECUs in a synchronized manner to enable the validation of perception and sensor fusion algorithms in the lab. This is what the dSPACE Environment Sensor Interface (ESI) Unit was designed to do.

It takes the raw digital data that is captured by environment sensors, separates it, and then feeds it into relevant camera, radar and lidar ECUs, as well as CPUs, to enable hardware-in-the-loop simulation testing, in both closed- and open-loop scenarios. Furthermore, the ESI unit supports all relevant sensor interfaces. A single unit can stimulate up to eight sensors synchronously and supports more than 50Gbit/s of aggregated bandwidth. By combining multiple units, users can test functions for autonomous driving with dozens of sensors.

Measurable safetyAV and ADAS developers can run millions of scenarios in simulation and in the real world and still be unable to quantify and easily communicate the level of safety. This is why Foretellix has developed its Foretify technology. It provides automation and analytics tools that orchestrate and monitor hundreds of millions of driving scenarios, including edge cases. As every scenario specification is broken down into variants, scenario generation can be easily automated. The ultimate result is that all tests are aggregated to one coverage dashboard and metric, which in turn results in measurability. Foretify works with all common driving platforms.

Foretellix Booth: AV410

DAY 1: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

4.00pm – Ethics in autonomous vehicle and

emerging technology design

An engineer-turned

lawyer, Jennifer

understands automotive

technology, development

cycles, and issues in the

transport sector. She’ll

discuss how ethics can

inform the design of AVs

and emerging technology.

JENNIFER DUKARSKISHAREHOLDER, BUTZEL LONG

SPEAKERSPOTLIGHT

dSPACE Booth: AV220

Crystal Group Booth: AV320

www.autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com/michigan

REGISTER NOWfor your free exhibition entry pass!

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TEST & DEVELOPMENT

Symposium, Novi, Michigan

Autonomous Vehicle Test and Development Symposium

INTERVIEW: TONY GIOUTSOS

DIRECTOR PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT FOR

AUTONOMOUS AMERICAS, SIEMENS

What is the ideal balance between physical testing and simulation?I’ve been involved with automotive algorithms for 30 years and my experience tells me that we should have roughly a 100,000 to 1 ratio of simulation to real data. However, this is dependent on being able to fully rely on the real data. For simulation data, we can settle on slightly less than 100%, but the real-world data must be 100% reliable.

In other words, if a real event occurs, the system must act appropriately. That real event can then be simulated in something like 100,000 variations. The system should act correctly in 99,500 of these variations, as the remaining 500 scenarios are likely to be irrelevant or not realistic. Of course, if all 100,000 variations work perfectly, the HAV system becomes even more robust and resilient. When it can deal with extraordinary events, we can be sure it’ll be able to navigate new real-world events.

What is the background to your presentation?Verification and validation (V&V) of highly automated vehicles (HAVs) requires the use of simulation on a massive scale to create a design of experiments (DOE) and Monte Carlo series of tests. These test results can then be correlated to the desired results by using standard Estimation and Detection principles. As an example, for a detection case such as AEB, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, where the true positive rate is plotted against the false

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positive rate at various threshold settings, can be computed. This creates a V&V of the AEB system.

What is the process?To start this process, we must start with a series of appropriate scenarios, because they are very important in establishing the ‘base’ set of tests that our system must analyze and work from. As this baseline, we will choose a number of edge cases from a wide variety of sources such as Euro NCAP, GIDAS, CIDAS, Streetwise and ASAM. Once this base set is defined, we can move on to sensor modeling.

The next step in the process involves correctly modeling the sensors, as well as the associated perception and control algorithms. With accurate, physics-based sensor models, and SIL, HIL, DIL or VIL, we vastly reduce the need for real-world testing. For creating the models themselves, we focus on the detailed physics models required to simulate camera, radar, lidar and V2X.

Next, we can create range-Doppler images of scenes that cars might drive through. This is a somewhat processed version of the raw radar data. It plots the radar cross-section against the range and relative velocity to the ego vehicle. We then correlate this to real data by working with various sensor manufacturers and suppliers.

Once the sensor models are chosen, deterministic and stochastic variations can be used to widely vary the scenario database. This will create massive variations that help

9:00amA massive simulation

approach to verify and validate AV systems

DAY 2WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 23

produce the V&V framework for analysis. We can vary factors such as sensor noise, actor trajectories, weather and lighting variation, sensor mounting, and much more.

These variations should be orchestrated with tracking in place so that situations with unexpected results can be played back. This is an important step, as only an analysis of the results and correlation to a set of requirements can lead to a proper V&V of the entire HAV system.

In addition to the generic HAV system with its world and sensor models, ‘digital twins’ of the vehicle, occupants and tires should also be added to the process. The tires are the only part of the vehicle touching the ground and play an important part in the overall analysis. Finally, the occupants are what matter most, so when the HAV system doesn’t meet expectations, the impact on the occupants must be immediately clear.

LUNCHTIME WORKSHOP PROGRAMSOTIF-Based Scenario Hazard Analysis, Parameterization and Population SpecificationJoin experts from MSC for an exclusive ‘deep dive’ into a probabilistic approach for scenario-based analysis. In small groups, you will review NHTSA scenarios related to common autonomous vehicle pre-crash scenarios, related exposure and coverage data; analyze dynamic driving tasks (DDT),

scene and situation specification; and analyze hazardous events and related object event decision response (OEDR).

This enables the definition of scenario parameters for assembling detailed logical scenarios and anticipated boundary values,

and clarifies how to derive the critical states to validate and build trust. Participants will gain understanding of the challenges associated with consistent scenario-based validation, and identify approaches to manage the implied complexities.

See website for details – www.autonomousvehiclesymposium.com/detroit

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TEST & DEVELOPMENT

Symposium, Novi, Michigan

Autonomous Vehicle Test and Development Symposium

INTERVIEW: SANDEEP SOVANI

GLOBAL DIRECTOR, AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

ANSYS

What is the background to your presentation? Simulation is very well known in the industry as a key enabler for the success of AVs because it has the ability to replace the billions of miles of road testing that would otherwise be required to validate the safety of AVs. I view the challenges and opportunities of simulation in five aspects: sensors and sensor implementation, functional safety and cybersecurity, automated driving software, adapting the vehicle to autonomy, and finally, bringing all these components together in a complete simulation of an AV driving in a virtual environment.

How does simulation help sensor development? There is a lot riding on sensors as they are the eyes and ears of the vehicle, so from a simulation perspective, we focus not only on the sensors themselves, but also on the individual subcomponents and their integration into the vehicle.

For the core development, we start with simulations of the sensor components. Once the sensors are installed in the vehicle, they may start to behave differently than when tested in isolation, so being able to predict this behavior early on and account for any variations is very important and simulation can help with that. Finally, simulation can also be used for either training or testing the AI behind the sensors.

Bringing everything together, we can perform simulations of the vehicle driving through a scene and check whether the sensor is capturing the scene properly. An important benefit of this methodical approach is that when we do simulations at the scenario level, we can include details right down to the component level and how this is integrated into the vehicle, so the scenario simulation becomes super-accurate.

What are some of the main challenges in simulation today? A crucial aspect is automating the creation of world models. The ultimate simulation is a virtual vehicle in a virtual world, so first, you have to create a virtual world. The real world

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has so many details and imperfections: it’s therefore essential that virtual models reflect all those things.

In video games, generating world models is done by hand, which is very manpower intensive. The needs of AV simulation are orders of magnitude bigger because every street and every aspect of every street need to be modeled. It’s an enormous task, so techniques are being developed to automate the modeling of these aspects, including the use of existing HD maps and generating 3D data by driving a vehicle equipped with a lidar through a particular neighborhood.

How can these challenges be met? When we model sensors in detail at the component level and the vehicle integration level, those models have layers of physics with deep detail physics, so they don’t currently run in real time. To get to that point, we have various techniques of reduced order modeling (ROM). These techniques aim to preserve accuracy as much as possible, but increase the speed. If accuracy drops by a few percent, but you gain speed by a factor of 10, that’s a fair trade-off and it means the ROM is working well. This applies to every type of sensor.

What is the ideal balance between physical testing and simulation? We have always said that simulation will never completely replace physical testing as it has some unique advantages: it is able to uncover things that one can’t even imagine. It is also essential for validating the models.

On the other hand, simulation gives great leverage over physical testing. It can do orders of magnitude more testing once the models are validated and the objectives are known. Simulation is also really good at robustness tests around a certain situation, where an issue found in physical testing can be ‘budged’. In other words, a parameter that has proven problematic can be systematically varied to make sure the issue doesn’t recur.

TEST & DEVELOPMENT

Symposium, Novi, Michigan

DAY 3: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

12.00pm – A regulation-compliant safety framework

for the approval of AVs

TÜV Süd has developed

a universal framework

that copes with the

heterogeneous local

regulations. Houssem

will show how it

provides a method for

the assessment of AVs,

taking into account

local roadworthiness

regulations as well as

functional safety and

cybersecurity.

HOUSSEM ABDELLATIFGLOBAL HEAD AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND ADAS,

TÜV SÜD

SPEAKERSPOTLIGHT

10:00amBringing accuracy to AV

simulation with high-fidelity

physics

DAY 2WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 23

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ADAS & AV Legal Issues & Liabilities World Congress

Federal and state policies, testing, legislation and regulation to introduce ADAS and AV into the marketplaceKelly Bartlett, senior policy advisor/connected and automated vehicle specialist, Michigan Department of Transportation

Theories of product liability and application to real-world incidents

Tom Vanderford, associate general counsel/executive director, litigation, Hyundai Motor

America

ADAS and AVs project significant future benefits - legal considerations have a role in the outcomeJerry Johnson, VP and deputy general counsel, Robert Bosch North America

Privacy and cybersecurity considerations concerning the collection, use and sharing of

vehicle dataSteven Wernikoff, partner, Honigman Miller

Ethics in autonomous vehicle and emerging technology designJennifer Dukarski, shareholder, Butzel Long

The class action implications of

autonomous, electric and connected motor vehicle technologies

Neal Walters, product liability group leader, Ballard Spahr LLP

Don’t miss North America’s only

conference focused exclusively on the

various legal issues brought about by different levels of autonomy, with dedicated

sessions addressing product liability, ethics, class

action, privacy and cybersecurity,

and more!

EDITOR’S PICKS: SEVEN PRESENTATIONS

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Panel discussion: Product liability prevention

The presenters will discuss the role of legal counsel in the development of ADAS and AV systems, the importance of the legal relationship between vehicle manufacturers and suppliers in realizing projected societal benefits, and legal considerations surrounding different levels of automation.

Erinn DePorreassistant general counsel, product litigation and AV,

General Motors LLC

Jason Mengesdirector/assistant general

counsel, Nissan North America

Tony Gioutsosdirector portfolio development

autonomous Americas, Siemens

Michael Kidneypartner, Hogan Lovells US LLP

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