The AVxcelerate Headlamp solution enables optical engineers to test drive the headlamp design, combined with its control software, in a virtual environment that replicates the physical world, thanks to optical properties and real-time, physics-based optical simulation.
AVxcelerate Headlamp accelerates the development of intelligent headlamps by validating control law behavior and testing potential edge cases early in design. Easily assess innovative and smart light beams with real-time optical simulation in a virtual driving environment. Increase your final product quality and strongly reduce the risk of finding issues late in the development process.
Real-time and physics-based optical simulation guarantee the accuracy of virtual headlamp prototypes in the driving environment. By accounting for the optical properties of material and light propagation, you can make reliable decisions about your optical design.
Ansys supports Continental in the area of autonomous driving, testing and validation with more accurate camera sensor simulation.
"Using Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors during ADAS/AD testing and validation, we were able to confidently test real-life scenarios that were previously off-limits to us with simulation, with complete confidence in the accuracy of our results."
— Tomasz Zawistowski Project Manager / HyperSat Creotech Instruments / Piaseczno, Poland
To achieve the high level of accuracy advanced driver assistance systems/ autonomous driving (ADAS/AD) technology requires, Continental must specifically target its camera sensors for simulation. Currently Continental engineers do real-world driving on test tracks or roads to train, test, and validate ADAS or AD systems. They also do component-level testing and simulation; however, there are only limited engineering simulation solutions available to tackle this problem. Even though the effort to develop a well-rounded solution is ongoing, the collaboration between Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors and Continental camera sensor solutions is delivering promising results.
Release Date: January 2022 R1
AVxcelerate drives an open architecture and new capabilities for sensor simulation and asset preparation. Quickly and easily validate AV sensor configurations, including perception and AV features, with the driving simulation tool of your choice.
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AVxcelerate Headlamp now includes improved IIHS tests with efficient Simulink scripts and an enriched Simulink Report Generator. It also supports new C-IASI tests with Simulink scripts to comply with regulations.
AVxcelerate Headlamp has advanced illuminance sensors for creating your own headlight regulation checks based on your KPIs with illuminance from all the vehicle’s headlamps in the scenario.
AVxcelerate Sensors includes a new UI to make the definition of physics-based sensor simulation easier, with validation rules and self-contained export/import sensor models to simplify the layout of multiple sensors.
AVxcelerate Headlamp now includes improved IIHS tests with efficient Simulink scripts and an enriched Simulink Report Generator. It also supports new C-IASI tests with Simulink scripts to comply with regulations.
AVxcelerate Headlamp has advanced illuminance sensors for creating your own headlight regulation checks based on your KPIs with illuminance from all the vehicle’s headlamps in the scenario.
New NCAP Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) and Lane Support Systems (LSS) scenarios in VRXPERIENCE are compliant with physics-based simulation in day and night driving conditions.
The new APIs to control the sensor simulation and access raw sensor output will increase productivity through the support of your specific process and engineering tools.
The unique features of real-time optical simulation allow headlight designers to perform virtual night tests and assess headlamp performance without going to the test track.
Ansys VRXPERIENCE Headlamp extends testing for intelligent lighting, such as AFS, ADB, matrix and pixel beam, and control law models to assess IIHS ratings. Additionally, perform early driver-in-the-loop testing, increasing the final product quality and strongly reducing the risk of finding issues late in the development process.
Driving Scenarios with the driving simulator of your choice.
The real-time, physics-based solution allows you to simulate virtual prototypes of headlamps to detect, analyze and compare any defects in beam patterns, including chromatic aberrations.
Use the pixel beam or matrix beam testing scenarios for several cars at once, allowing you to generate scenarios such as oncoming and preceding vehicles, crossroads, takeover maneuver, etc., in any environment, from urban areas to countryside by using the integrated driving simulator of your choice. Include test drivers within the decision loop thanks to the driver-in-the-loop capabilities.
Visualization in false colors facilitates the comparisons between different behaviors and light sources — Halogen, Xenon or LED. Measurement grids ease the assessment of homogeneity of light distribution and the aiming wall allows you to check the conformity of the cut-off according to regional regulation.
The solution offers a real-time pixel beam simulation and control mechanism capable of managing pixel-level beam behavior (such as DMD or microLED systems for example). Efficiently develop, iterate and test your intelligent lighting system control software, up to hardware-in-the-loop simulation with camera sensor injection.
With AVxcelerate's glare-free high beam feature, you can measure the discomfort of the glare generated by the other vehicle headlamp from a driver’s perspective, including a visual gauge to objectively measure the discomfort. A corresponding visual effect is added to the rendering view to graphically show the glare impact. Measurements provide a quantified, detailed analysis on several lighting configurations and scenarios for easy comparison.
The vehicle under test automatically drives along a normed trajectory where virtual illuminance sensors are positioned according to the standards. AVxcelerate Headlamp considers vehicle dynamics and intelligent lighting control laws. An automated batch test mode allows you to evaluate several headlamp configurations in a row, generating a detailed report including the rating and detection thresholds.
AVXCELERATE HEADLAMP RESOURCES & EVENTS
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