Advanced simulation aims to remove testing barrier for autonomous vehicle development

The simulation technology enables the tuning of sensors, the training of perception and control algorithms and testing of the full AV technology stack.

The company said that the platform can provide closed-loop perception testing and the creation of engineering-grade synthetic training data for the autonomous vehicle industry.

“AV elevate is a game-changing simulation platform, it is the most advanced solution to enable the complete AV technology stack to be tuned, trained and tested,” Matt Daley, technical director at rFpro, said in a statement. 

“For the first time, AV developers can confidently reduce their reliance on real-world testing, instead subjecting systems to AV elevate’s highly-accurate synthetic data. Now, testing and development can be massively and cost-effectively scaled like never before, removing the biggest barrier to the advancement of AVs.”

To create AV elevate, rFpro has integrated several new technologies to its existing platform including LiDAR, radar and camera models, a new Simulation Manager to simply define the full vehicle sensor suite and create base test scenarios with thousands of iterations, and compatibility with High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud to conduct and scale the testing rapidly.