UK team awarded £4.2m to develop world leading driving simulator
An advanced driving simulator that will enable engineers to test any make of car is to be developed by a team at WMG.
WMG (formerly known as the Warwick Manufacturing group) has been awarded £3.2m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and £1m from industry to create what it claims will be one of the world’s most adaptable and advanced driving simulators.
The simulator, which will be available to a range of research groups, will use a LIDAR scan (essentially a high resolution laser scan of an environment) of 30 miles of real roads around the city of Coventry to test vehicles in the simulator.
While the simulator will use a fixed test car for many tests it will also be configured so that any make of car can be driven into the simulator for testing which is believed to be a unique capability for such an advanced simulator.
The simulator will be tested and piloted in WMG’s International Manufacturing Centre at Warwick University before moving to its final home in the National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC), a 33,000m2 research facility that is about to begin construction at Warwick University.
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