ANSYS and AVSimulation collaborate on virtual testing to accelerate autonomous vehicle design and validation

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According to foreign media reports, ANSYS announced a partnership with AVSimulation to combine AVSimulation's simulation technology with ANSYS's immersive autonomous driving simulation solutions to accelerate the pace of autonomous vehicles entering the market.

Meeting stringent safety standards for autonomous driving requires testing the complex interactions between autonomous vehicles and their surroundings, traffic, and weather in millions of scenarios. This testing requires billions of miles of exhaustive physical road testing of prototypes, taking decades of development time and cost.

ANSYS® VRXPERIENCE® helps reduce physical prototype testing and save time. It is one of ANSYS's immersive solutions that combines virtual reality capabilities with physical simulation. It enables engineers to test, verify and experience autonomous driving systems and vehicle performance under daily driving conditions, completing millions of miles of virtual testing in a single day.

VRXPERIENCE includes HMI testing, physical sensor simulation (including radar, lidar, camera and ultrasonic), embedded software control integration, and headlight simulation, connected with simulation data management and system safety analysis.

AVSimulation SCANeR™ Studio is embedded in VRXPERIENCE as its driving simulator module.

AVSimulation SCANeR™ Studio is an open, scalable and modular simulation solution. It creates a realistic virtual world, allowing users to simulate thousands of diverse driving scenarios in high-performance clusters or public clouds, such as Microsoft Azure. SCANeR™ combines high-definition maps and asset libraries to generate roads, traffic conditions, weather conditions, and vehicle dynamics.

“Virtual prototyping and large-scale simulation are key to ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles,” said Olivier Colmard, Vice President of Integrated CAE & PLM Engineering at Renault. “Renault Racing uses AVSimulation and its SCANeR Studio technology to design, simulate and test autonomous driving systems in millions of driving scenarios to verify vehicle safety. This collaboration helps reduce physical testing, shorten time to market and ensure safety.”

“The combination of VRXPERIENCE and the SCANeR™ Driving Simulator will enable OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 customers to fast track the creation, integration and certification of Level 3 to Level 5 autonomous vehicles,” said Eric Bantegnie, vice president and general manager of the Systems Business Unit at ANSYS. “This collaboration will help automakers reduce development costs and accelerate the delivery of autonomous vehicles.”