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FEATURES 036 Interview: American Center for Mobility President and CEO Reuben Sarkar is confident that CONTENTS 2020 will be the strongest year since the facility’s opening, despite the shutdown due to Covid-19 042 OEM interview: VW talks to Volkswagen about the testing of the ATTI eighth-generation Golf – the first mass market car to feature vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology
048 CAV development challenges what they regard Industry professionals tell ATTI as the biggest technological hurdles faced by the AV NEWS INSIDER automotive community in the race get AVs on roads MEDIA INFORMATION 054 OEM interview: Geely Auto A carefully developed engineering process backed by a dedicated team is what separates the firm from other Chinese car makers, claims Li Li, VP of R&D 062 AV testing in China With its unique set of roads and traffic scenarios, the country offers the perfect proving ground for testing automated and ADAS functions for next-gen vehicles 068 Gaming technology How developers from the video games sector are WORDS BY ALEX GRANT applying their expertise to build simulation platforms AV NEWS INSIDERS for autonomous car evaluation and training purposes augmented by six high-dynamic range at egun cameras with overlapping fields of 004 Waymo 010 096 Automotive Testing Expo tech showcase Waymo has b vision, providing additional detail The firm has added more cost-effective sensors to its A selection of the technology and service debuts th modified Jaguar I-Pace test cars, which also offer better equipping its test fleet needed for identification. Waymo says AV NEWS INSIDERwere expected at the event in Novi, Michigan, which perception, with the ultimate aim of achieving scalability with a newimproved suite of sensors, this enables the system to look around was scheduled to take place October 27-29, 2020 vision system claiming obstructions, quickly identify other and 360 Oxbotica; Karma 360 lidar 008 Supplier interview: Racelogic road users and spot gaps in traffic. 105 perception and a significantly reduced The roof-mounted sensor pack A new image generation technique being adopted by Managing director Julian Thomas reveals the latest Oxbotica will expedite AV training. Meanwhile, Karma in the company’s indoor positioning tech cost compared with the previous innovations features a new 360° lidar, which offers has built an L4 electric commercial vehicle platform generation, enabling easier scalability a bird’s-eye view of other road users 023 of its technology. and can detect obstacles up to 300m 010 DiDi Chuxing; Nuro Module and system-level testing A pilot robotaxi service has been launched in Shanghai. (984ft) ahead. Positioned above the of the fifth-generation Waymo Driver windshield, the updated long-range Elsewhere, in Houston, Nuro is assessing the benefits platform is underway in the San includes a custom-designed and pitfalls of a driverless medical delivery operation camera Francisco Bay Area, assessing lens and upgraded internals to performance in different weather provide sharper images more than conditions using adapted Jaguar 500m (1,640ft) in the distance, with Automotive Testing Technology International magazine I-Pace SUVs. improved accuracy in poor weather TECH INSIDERS 048 Long range camera and radar Perimeter lidar and peripheral Generational advances were vision system conditions, the company said. developed based on experience from 012 Ford F-150 ATTI learns Input from the lidar and cameras The truck’s diversity lends itself well for trialling new 20 million miles (32,000,000km) of are overlapped with a redesigned development methods and techniques, as on-road driving, and 10 billion miles lities and AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TEST & radar architecture, with additional Maserati MC20 DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY PAPERS radar (16,000,000,000km) in simulation, the signal-processing capabi 018 l vision system and company said. Despite upgrading all Periphera improved outputs aimed at better Created from scratch in only two years, engineers had of the sensor packs, Waymo claims to a big task on their hands to ensure that the model is a 074 Scenario-based verification resolution, range and field-of-view. is totally dedicated to the latest technologies and by Siddhant Gupta, research engineer, verification have halved the system cost compared Waymo said this offers better capable racer as well as built for electrification 054 facturing process. and validation, autonomous driving/ADAS, Volvo, with its predecessor by simplifying the detection and tracking of objects, 023 REE corner system and Alexandre Mugnai, business developer, Esteco design and manu whether moving or stationary. Modularity is key to the EV platform from the Israeli Perimeter lidar, peripheral Software upgrades are also in the startup, which was tested harnessing various partners 080 visionAV system simulation and radar testing NEW VISION pipeline. Waymo has developed a new by Prof. Dr Andras Kemeny, expert leader, simulation Short-range perception is improved model for predicting other drivers’ and virtual reality at Renault, and director of LIV, using a new perimeter vision system, behavior, called VectorNet, which is Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology mounted at waist height on the front, 068 Waymo sides and rear of the vehicle. It uses services within the world of automotive testing, l 086 Future mobilitynd periphera skills gap four lidar units to detect obstacles, meter lidar a
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093 Framework for accurate AV testing by Florian Hauer, research associate at the Technical University of Munich, Germany evaluation and quality engineering. 042 105 001 estingTechnologyInternational.comSEPTEMBER 2020 www.AutomotiveT
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