PITTSBURGH, June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The next generation
of autonomous vehicles (AV) will be designed faster, safer and more
affordably thanks to a strategic partnership between
AVSimulation and ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS). The collaboration
integrates revolutionary simulation technology from AVSimulation
with ANSYS' immersive autonomous driving simulation solutions,
greatly accelerating AV's path to market for automobile
manufacturers.
Meeting the stringent safety standards for autonomous driving
requires proof that all complex interactions between an autonomous
vehicle and its surrounding environment, traffic and weather can be
tested across millions of scenarios. This testing requires billions
of miles of exhaustive physical road tests of the prototype car,
consuming decades of development time and cost.
To drastically reduce physical prototype testing and save time,
OEMs are turning to ANSYS® VRXPERIENCE®,
one of ANSYS' immersive, cutting-edge solutions, to combine virtual
reality capabilities with physics-based simulation. It enables
engineers to test, validate and experience AV systems and vehicle
performance in everyday driving conditions, spanning millions of
virtual miles in a single day. VRXPERIENCE includes HMI testing,
physical sensor simulation (including radars, LIDARs, cameras and
ultrasonic), embedded software controls integration, headlamp
simulation and links to simulation data management and systems
safety analysis.
Embedded within VRXPERIENCE, as its driving simulator module,
AVSimulation's proven SCANeR™ Studio product is an open
and scalable modular simulation solution that creates an
ultra-realistic virtual world, enabling users to simulate thousands
of driving scenarios with numerous variabilities on high
performance clusters or on public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure.
SCANeR™ incorporates roads generated from high definition maps
and asset libraries, traffic situations, weather conditions,
vehicle dynamics and more.
"Virtual prototyping and massive simulation are key to ensuring
safe autonomous vehicles," said Olivier Colmard, vice president,
engineering – integrated CAE & PLM at RENAULT. "Thanks to
AVSimulation and its SCANeR Studio technology, RENAULT teams can
design, simulate and test autonomous driving systems and validate
automotive safety with millions of driving scenarios while
leveraging the same platform across the development cycle. This
agreement will accelerate the worldwide adoption of SCANeR through
the new ANSYS VRXPERIENCE solution to reduce physical testing,
shorten time-to-market and ensure safety."
"The advent of autonomous driving has ushered in the most
transformative moment in automotive history since Henry Ford revolutionized industrial
manufacturing and this partnership is a major step forward in
accelerating AV innovation," said Emmanuel
Chevrier, CEO, AVSimulation. "Together, VRXPERIENCE and
SCANeR have raised the bar for designing groundbreaking, highly
reliable and highly efficient AV systems throughout the automotive
industry."
"The limitless possibilities of VRXPERIENCE combined with the
SCANeR™ Driving Simulator will empower our OEMs, tier one and
tier two customers to fast-track the creation, integration and
certification of level three to level five AVs," said Eric
Bantegnie, vice president and general manager, systems business
unit at ANSYS. "With this partnership, AVSimulation and ANSYS
deliver a phenomenal breadth and a depth of technologies empowering
automakers to dramatically reduce development costs and expedite AV
delivery to their customers."
About ANSYS, Inc.
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its
creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering
simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering
Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver
radically better products to their customers. By offering the best
and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help
them solve the most complex design challenges and create products
limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, ANSYS is
headquartered south of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Visit www.ansys.com for more
information.
ANSYS and any and all ANSYS, Inc. brand, product, service and
feature names, logos and slogans are registered trademarks or
trademarks of ANSYS, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries
About AVSimulation
Founded in 2017 AVSimulation is a joint venture between Oktal
and Renault leveraging 25 years' experience in simulation and deep
automotive domain knowledge. AVSimulation is a leading provider of
end-to-end simulation solutions - from software such as SCANeR™ to
ground breaking simulators - for advanced and autonomous vehicles
prototyping, development, validation and AI training.
SCANeR™ is a complete, open and modular platform including
advanced models for Vehicle Dynamics, Driver, Sensors and
Environment (Roads, Traffic, Weather) from functional to full
physical modelling used by more than a hundred customers across the
globe.
To further reduce time-to-market AVSimulation provides expertise
and accelerators to help its customers win the race to build safer
and better autonomous vehicles. Headquartered in Blagnac in
France and with offices in
Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA and
Boulogne near Paris, AVSimulation
is the ultimate partner to win the race to build safer and better
autonomous vehicles.
Visit www.avsimulation.fr for more information.
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