Organizers
Chris Schwarz, Research Engineer, The University of Iowa
Jiaqi Ma, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
Session Description
Simulation is now fundamental to the continued development of automated driving systems. John Krafcik of Waymo claims that 80 percent of improvements are now coming from running self-driving algorithms in a simulator. There are new simulation tools available for training and testing automated vehicles. They are based on open source or freely available software, such as Unity and Unreal game engines. They support simulation of sensor suites, environmental conditions, full control of all static and dynamic actors, maps generation and much more that enable automated vehicle simulations. They have large and growing communities who can contribute to the simulation ecosystem and develop use cases. We invite this community to discuss tools, simulations, and research needs.
Goals/Objectives/Outputs
- We expect this session to be a useful way for the community to learn about new simulation tools that companies and universities are already using in their AV programs, and share experiences of developing use cases. Specific goals for the session include the following:
- Provide information on new AV simulation tools (ex: Unity3D, CARLA, ROS, etc).
- Learn how people are using the tools – existing use cases developed for AV technology development and testing.Learn how people would like to adapt the tools to their own research (ex: integrate into a human-in-the-loop simulator, hardware-in-the-loop simulation framework, or a conventional microscopic traffic simulation).
- Collect ideas for research needs.
Agenda
1:30 PM – 2:40 PM Presentations
Speakers will share overview information about new simulation tools for AVs
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
- Maria Elli, Intel
- Application of Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) to Simulation: Enabling Development of Safe Automated Vehicles
1:50 PM – 2:10 PM
- Daniel Schambach, Metamoto, Inc.
- Applying Modular, Scalable Software in the Loop Simulation
2:10 PM – 2:25 PM
- Ziran Wang, University of California Riverside
- Unity3D-Based AV Simulation with V2X Communication and Human-in-the-loop Integration
2:25 PM – 2:40 PM
- Yiheng Feng, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Testing and Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicle with Naturalistic Driving Data and Augmented Reality
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM Panel Discussion
A panel consisting of tool developers and users will share experiences and use cases. There will be a question and answer session and the audience will be invited to submit research needs ideas.
- Maria Elli, Intel
- Daniel Schambach, Metamoto, Inc.
- Ziran Wang, University of California Riverside
- Yiheng Feng, University of Michican Transportation Research Institute
- Jiaqi Ma, University of Cincinatti
- Karthik Krishnan, MSC Software