Ideation

Content

This project shall have two Standard releases:

• Jul 2021:    ASAM OpenDRIVE 1.7.0 
• Nov 2022:  ASAM OpenDRIVE 1.8.0 

ASAM OpenDRIVE V1.7.0 shall contain the implementation of the concept "Direct Links" (released concept). As this function is urgently requested by the community, V1.7.0 shall be released in the next TSC meeting in Jul 2021. The release shall also fix some ambiguities and errors.

Additional important functions from the ASAM OpenDRIVE Concept shall be implmented in ASAM OpenDRIVE V1.8.0:

• Junction Model
• Environmental Model
• Road Geometry
• Semantic Traffic Signs

(see project proposal for more details).

In the course of the project, ASAM started an alignment activity across all ASAM OpenX standards on Dynamic Signals. This activity also concerned ASAM OpenDRIVE. The first workshop took place on Oct 04,2022. Read more  In the following the project group has - in collaboration with other project groups in the Simulation domain - developed semantics for dynamic traffic signals in the on-road driving domain which are now included in ASAM OpenDRIVE V1.8.0. 

About ASAM OpenDRIVE

ASAM OpenDRIVE comprises a Specification, a style guide and a Schema for the logical description of road networks. It is intended for vehicle dynamics Simulation, traffic Simulation and sensor Simulation. ASAM OpenDRIVE is used in virtual development, test and Validation of driving assistance functionsas well as automated and autonomous driving. Within these use cases, ASAM OpenDRIVE files are describing road networks with respect to all data belonging to the road environment. They do not describe the entities acting on or interacting with the road. The standards ASAM OpenSCENARIO and ASAM OpenCRG supplement ASAM OpenDRIVE's content concerning scenario description and road surface description. The consolidated content of the three standards provides comprehensive input for the use-cases mentioned above.