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The 3xD Simulator for Intelligent Vehicles Professor Paul Jennings
20th October 2016
An academic department within the science faculty
Established in 1980 by Professor Lord Bhattacharyya as Warwick Manufacturing Group to facilitate technology transfer and knowledge creation for Industry
500+ people (800+ university and industry) working in 7 buildings
Training over 1,500 individuals in the UK and abroad (from school to post experience)
Co-located with Jaguar Land Rover & Tata Motors European Technical Centre
Professor Lord Bhattacharyya
Founder and Chairman of WMG
▶ £150m investment, led by private sector
▶ National focus of automotive research capability
▶ An environment to foster collaboration, cohesion and cross-fertilisation of knowledge
▶ Academic, industry (including supply chain) teams
▶ 33,000m2 building:
▶ Greener, lighter, smarter vehicles
• Design studio & support spaces
• Virtual engineering areas
• Powertrain/Hybrids dyno hall
• Multi-purpose drive-in engineering bays
• Electronics and other labs
• Hands on teaching areas
• Office space for 1,000
• Collaboration space
• Substantial exhibition area
• Café
NAIC: National Automotive Innovation Centre
Intelligent vehicle technology will bring benefits for all of us
Why ?
▶ 90% of current accidents are due to human error
▶ Improved energy efficiency and air quality
▶ Reduced congestion
▶ Greater productivity e.g. average UK driver spends 235 hours behind the wheel
▶ Independent mobility for all
▶ Huge new business opportunities for many sectors
But we need to ensure that vehicles will be safe, secure and robust
• UK is encouraging national use, so our experience informs international scene ( ISO, type approval etc.. )
Government has published a Code of Practice
• Important for public engagement
Real World Trials
Trials are hugely valuable but…
▶ We need to minimise risk
▶ There is no repeatability, and limited control of the test conditions
▶ High cost & low efficiency
Karla N & Paddock S 2016 Driving to Safety: How Many Miles of Driving Would it Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability RAND Corporation
How many miles does it take to test an autonomous vehicle?
Trials are hugely valuable but…
We also need to bridge the gap between real vehicle demonstration and computer simulation, whilst still involving real people.
New methods are required…
(amongst a continuum of approaches)
▶ We need to minimise risk
▶ There is no repeatability, and limited control of the test conditions
▶ High cost & low efficiency
WMG 3xD Simulator for Intelligent Vehicles
Vision: To test or evaluate any new technology (infrastructure, communications and on-vehicle) in representative real world conditions with a “driver” in the loop
WMG 3xD Simulator for Intelligent Vehicles
▶ 360 degree cylindrical screen, HD projection, surround sound and eye tracking
▶ Vehicle motion
▶ Vehicle control systems emulation to ‘trick’ the car into thinking it is running
▶ Emulation of external wireless signals such as GPS, ITS, 3G/4G and 802.11p
▶ 30 mile LiDAR scanned and graphically rendered driving route
▶ urban, intra-urban and motorway routes around Coventry
▶ Testing and evaluation ▶ Virtual design verification process and real time testing
▶ Functional safety & ISO26262
▶ Use Case and Scenario Definition
▶ Driver in the Loop
▶ Cybersecurity
▶ Perception, acceptance and usability (user trials, HMI, sound quality, driver monitoring, distraction, user-centric design)
▶ Communications technology
▶ New business opportunities
Current projects include: INTACT, UKCITE, VVIL and 8 doctoral projects
Our early research focus
INTACT: INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques
WMG’s “CAV1” projects
INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques
INTACT
Virtual Lidar sensors • Needed for the base map • Recreate dynamic LiDAR beam data
Options • Computer vision approach • Use of server-client data from simulator • Extract video from simulator in real-time
Virtual camera • Needed for object detection • Recreate separate video images
Advanced scenario and test case generation VVIL – Constrained randomised testing
• Case study: V2V co-operative driving
• Starting scenario
– number of vehicles
– speed and path of vehicles
– braking/acceleration of vehicles
– environmental conditions
• Runtime interaction with the simulator
– apply driving input
– receive data as if from sensors
“Tackling the Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing Challenge” - Ross Addinall, Vertizan
Vertizan Limited
Testing continuum
Faster than real-time Real-time
User-in-the-loop
Real World Trials
Track Testing
3xD Simulator
Digital World - Simulation
Increasing ability to choose scenarios
Flexibility to test different technology
Efficiency
Realism
Control of operating environment
Aim: to confidently test earlier in product development
Dependence upon real system availability
Summary
New technology and vehicles are coming sooner than we might think, bringing benefits for all of us.
But we need to ensure they are secure, safe and robust in complex real world environments To do this, we will need new infrastructure, real world trials, and new methods too…. WMG is developing a new and unique capability for virtual prototyping, to reduce R&D costs and accelerate commercialisation
