GPU Technology Conference -- NVIDIA
today announced the NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation™ autonomous vehicle
simulation platform is now available.
The cloud-based platform enables millions of miles to be driven
in virtual worlds across a broad range of scenarios — from routine
driving to rare and dangerous situations — with greater efficiency,
cost-effectiveness and safety than what is possible to achieve in
the real world.
First introduced at GTC last year, DRIVE Constellation is a data
center solution comprised of two side-by-side servers. One server —
DRIVE Constellation Simulator — uses NVIDIA GPUs running DRIVE Sim™
software to generate the sensor output from the virtual car driving
in a virtual world. The other server — DRIVE Constellation Vehicle
— contains the DRIVE AGX Pegasus™ AI car computer, which processes
the simulated sensor data.
The driving decisions from DRIVE Constellation Vehicle are fed
back into DRIVE Constellation Simulator, enabling bit-accurate,
timing-accurate hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Simulation will become a key component for third-party and
regulatory autonomous vehicle standards. Safety agencies such as
TÜV SÜD are already using the platform to formulate their
self-driving validation standards.
“TÜV SÜD is looking for simulation tools that are trustworthy,
robust and scalable for the approval of autonomous vehicles,” said
Houssem Abdellatif, global head of Autonomous Driving and ADAS at
TÜV SÜD. “NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation provides a powerful and highly
scalable solution to achieve this goal.”
The importance of simulation is recognized by the world’s
largest automaker. NVIDIA also announced today that Toyota Research
Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD) is the first customer of
DRIVE Constellation. “We believe large-scale simulation tools for
software validation and testing are critical for automated driving
systems,” said Dr. James Kuffner, CEO of TRI-AD.
Cloud-Based, End-to-End Workflow On stage at
GTC, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated the
scalability of the DRIVE Constellation platform seamlessly
performing driving tests in the cloud. Developers anywhere in the
world can submit simulation scenarios to DRIVE Constellation data
centers and evaluate the results from their desks.
This large-scale validation capability is comparable to
operating an entire fleet of test vehicles, however, it is able to
accomplish years of testing in a fraction of the time.
Open PlatformDRIVE Constellation is an open
platform into which ecosystem partners can integrate their
environment models, vehicle models, sensor models and traffic
scenarios. By incorporating datasets from the broader simulation
ecosystem, the platform can generate comprehensive, diverse and
complex testing environments.
To this end, Cognata, a simulation company, announced today that
its scenario and traffic model can be supported on DRIVE
Constellation. With Cognata’s traffic models, developers can define
a number of vehicles and other road users, as well as their
behavior, based on real-world traffic behavior.
“Cognata and NVIDIA are creating a robust solution that will
efficiently and safely accelerate autonomous vehicles’ market
entry,” said Danny Atsmon, CEO of Cognata. “Highly accurate and
scalable traffic model simulation technology is essential to
validate autonomous vehicle systems with very large combinations of
real-world scenarios.”
IPG Automotive, a leading automotive simulation company, is
another ecosystem partner working with NVIDIA to enable a
high-fidelity vehicle models. Its simulation software, CarMaker, is
used to create virtual vehicle prototypes, including models of all
main vehicle subsystems. Developers can include test vehicle
responses to changes in steering, road surface, suspension,
powertrain and vehicle control systems for function
development.
“Together with the support of our ecosystem partners, we’re
making available large-scale, cloud-based, open simulation that
thoroughly and safely validates self-driving cars under endless
challenging situations,” said Zvi Greenstein, general manager at
NVIDIA.
NVIDIA will demonstrate the DRIVE Constellation simulation
platform in the expo hall at GTC, March 19-21, in the San Jose
Convention Center.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
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limited to, statements as to: the benefits, performance, impact,
abilities, price and availability of NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation;
NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation enabling millions of miles to be driven
in virtual worlds with greater efficiency, cost-effectiveness and
safety and it moving autonomous test fleet vehicles to the cloud;
safety agencies using NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation to formulate
self-driving validation standards; NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation
providing a powerful and highly scalable solution for simulations
for approval of autonomous vehicles; DRIVE Constellation enabling
customers to remotely access the platform from anywhere in the
world and developers being able to submit specific simulation
scenarios to it and evaluate the results from their desks; DRIVE
Constellation enabling large-scale validation and accomplishing
months or years of testing in a fraction of the time; the benefits
and impact of DRIVE Constellation being an open platform; Cognata’s
model being supported by NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation; Cognata and
NVIDIA creating a robust solution that will efficiently and safely
accelerate autonomous vehicles’ market entry; highly accurate and
scalable traffic model simulation technology being essential to
validate autonomous vehicle systems within nearly infinite
combinations of real-world scenarios; IPG Automotive and NVIDIA
working together and IPG’s enabling developers to monitor how the
test vehicle reacts to changes in steering, orientation, road
surface, suspension and other conditions; NVIDIA working with
ecosystem partners to make available large-scale, cloud-based open
simulation that thoroughly and safely validates self-driving cars
under endless challenging situations; DRIVE Constellation being a
best-of-breed offering that’s poised to accelerate the safe
deployment of AVs and enabling millions of miles of testing in
bit-accurate simulation; and NVIDIA’s demonstration of DRIVE
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