Application Story

Challenges

Safe perception of the environment and accurate localization of the ego perspective within the environment are two crucial prerequisites for the virtual The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation of automated driving vehicles. The BMWK-funded joint project RepliCar (reference sensor technology for high-precision sensor The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation for automated driving) is recording a highly accurate representation of reality as a comparative value for the The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation.

Solution

RepliCar aims to integrate sensory ground truth data directly into the simulative The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation. This includes data acquisition, data post-processing, feature extraction, and data fusion through to the object list. The project will rely on proven ASAM standards for data artifacts and interfaces and investigate their interoperability within an end-to-end toolchain for The process of certifying compliance of a product with regulatory requirements, e.g. that it meets public safety and environment standards.Homologation. A GAIA-X-related data space enables partners to trustfully exchange information while keeping their intellectual property.

Key Benefits

Replicar is a research project to improve processes of virtual The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation of vehicles based on real world data. Explicitly, creating a new level of high-resolution ground truth supports investigating how test procedures must be adapted to validate the sensors' reliability. This is a necessity for The process of certifying compliance of a product with regulatory requirements, e.g. that it meets public safety and environment standards.Homologation and avoidance of perception and display errors in the sensors.

To enable "sensor-in-the-loop" approaches or simulative The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation for the environment detection sensors, it is necessary to capture highly accurate the “ground truth” of the environment to be simulated (other traffic objects, but also the static environment).

To achieve the effective and efficient The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation of sensors, the sensors and data processing chains used must be validated to the highest requirements in precision and fidelity.

To address this challenge the partners of the BMWK-funded joint project RepliCar aim to develop a reference system with integrated high-resolution radar, camera, lidar, GNSS, and inertial sensors. This reference system will be installed into a testing vehicle. By using particularly high-resolution sensors and a particularly powerful sensor data fusion for object recognition, a highly accurate representation of reality is recorded.

The project partner ANavS GmbH will be developing sensor data fusion for environment perception as well as for self-localization of the ego vehicle. The Institute for High-Frequency Technology and Electronics (IHE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Offenburg University of Applied Sciences (HSO), and Freudenberg FST GmbH are developing the high-precision radar system. This essential element in the reference system is validated by the Institute for Regulation and Control Systems (IRS) at KIT. The project partners AKKA Industry Consulting GmbH, the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, IAVF Antriebstechnik GmbH, IPG Automotive GmbH, and GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung mbH will define and implement all steps from simulative The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation to the The process of confirmation that a system complies to a specific standard or a specified subset of a standard.Certification the of sensors and functions. The driving demonstrator is being realized by Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart. It records initial data and uses it for the release process of an exemplary perception system.

The individual innovations in the The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation and testing process are based on ASAM standards. This includes the integration of artificial intelligence methods for analyzing recorded scenarios, a "sensor in the loop" test bench, integration into existing Is the process of imitation of the behavior of a modeled real-world system over time.Simulation tools, and modular The process of determining that a system meets defined specifications, technical or regulatory requirements.Verification and The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation processes. To allow data sharing between partners, HighQSoft GmbH and RA Consulting GmbH will design a GAIA-X-based data space based on ASAM Open Data Services (ASAM Standard)ODS and other descriptive ASAM standards. The targeted end-point-2-edge-2-cloud architecture includes data capturing in the vehicle (endpoint), data consolidation in a telematics server (edge) and the data space (cloud).

The project develops a reference system for ground truth data to improve the whole The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation toolchain and the The process of certifying compliance of a product with regulatory requirements, e.g. that it meets public safety and environment standards.Homologation process. Also, based on a reference architecture, the interoperability of ASAM standards and GAIA-X-based data spaces are investigated to provide further details on a standardized digital twin The process of determining that a system performs and meets the needs for identified end users.Validation process that is interoperable with the domain of automotive electronics engineering.

Such an integrated A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard based architecture will

• allow a seamless exchange of information across toolchains,
• accelerate and secure the automotive electronics development processes,
• create tangible results more efficiently and at higher quality,
• allow a seamless exchange of information between al stakeholders and over the product life cycle
• reduces the overall costs.

Real Driving Validation (RDV) is a research project funded by the BMWK on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.