Ansys say their AVxcelerate Sensors will be accessible within Nvidia Drive Sim, a scenario-based AV simulator powered by Nvidia Omniverse, a platform for developing universal scene description (OpenUSD) applications for industrial digitalisation. The integration will provide users access to high-fidelity sensor simulation outputs for training and validating ADAS-AV perception systems.
AV sensors and software must be extensively tested and validated in real-world driving scenarios, including critical edge cases, to safely navigate roadways. The scale of this challenge is too large for physical on-road testing alone, which would require billions of kilometres. The future of AVs depends on highly realistic, scalable simulations to test and validate AV sensor and software performance in a controlled virtual environment.
The combined strengths of Nvidia and Ansys narrow the gap between reality and simulation. Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will augment Nvidia Drive Sim’s high-fidelity, scalable 3D environments for scenario generation with Ansys’ predictively accurate physics solvers for camera, lidar, and radar sensors. This way, Nvidia Drive Sim users will be able to develop, train, test, and validate the performance of AV perception systems while saving time and cost.
