This year’s Automotive Testing Expo and Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo events in Novi, MI, included a brand new opportunity for visitors to witness first hand a wide range of ADAS and AV technologies put to the test during an exclusive ‘Live Demo Day’.

Held at the American Center for Mobility’s (ACM) impressive Willow Run proving ground, the Live Demo Day enabled ten leading companies to demonstrate their latest AV and ADAS development technology to hundreds of engineers and decision makers.

After three days of intensive product sourcing and networking at both exhibitions, visitors also got the chance to see some of the technology from the show in action at the ACM, which features roads and traffic set-ups to simulate the breadth of situations an automated vehicle might encounter.

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Beyond hosting this week’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo (and related conferences), Novi was also the location for a brand new conference dedicated to auto interiors. The Future of Automotive Interiors featured speakers from organizations such as Renault-Nissan, Continental and Tech Mahindra, who identified and discussed the trends and technologies shaping current and near-future automotive interiors.

Noteworthy speakers included: Joseph Simpson, senior design strategist, Volvo Cars; Bruce Mehler, research scientist, MIT; Dr Vyacheslav Birman, an expert from Continental; Dr Wolfgang Stolzmann, lead engineer and consultant ADAS, CMORE Automotive GmbH; and Dr Rose Ryntz, president/Carbon Advisory Board member, Ryntz & Associates LLC.

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Like on the first day, the second day of the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium had two sessions running simultaneously, ensuring a packed program. The first presentation in Room B on Wednesday was given by Vince Socci, who shared National Instruments’ take on validating the vision sensors for ADAS.

The presentation kicked off the ‘Vision – Sensors and Lidar Test and Development’ session with a solid foundation in the testing challenges and how to solve them. After all, safe autonomous vehicles require clear vision of the world around them. The vehicle’s ‘eyes’ (radars, cameras, lidars, ultrasound, V2X) and ‘brain’ (ECU, sensor fusion) need a vision test to ensure they pick up any hazards and are able to navigate traffic safely and comfortably.

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PLM system developer Dassault Systèmes’ booth at this week’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Novi really caught visitors’ attention with a fully fledged driving simulator running the company’s signature product, 3DEXPERIENCE.

Solution consultant Kandarp Patel explains, “We are a product development company – we help in the development of any product, all the way from concept to delivery. Eighty percent of the cars and planes you see out there are made using our software. We can do everything virtually, not only driving-wise; we can also simulate the crash, how the dirt is going to be collected on the sensors and so on.

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A particular highlight of the first day of the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium was the presentation by Neil Garbacik, who’s responsible for ADAS safety and security at Fiat-Chrysler. FCA is one of 11 companies taking part in the Safety First for Automated Driving (SaFAD) initiative, which sets out a framework for the development of safe automated driving systems.

The collective work defines 12 guiding principles of safe automated driving development for SAE Level 3 and Level 4 automated driving systems, derived from a comprehensive collection of publications and recommendations from public authorities and consumer associations. It applies the principles to the development lifecycle of automated driving technology, covering requirements development through verification and validation and continuing beyond product deployment.

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SBG Systems exhibited its Quanta series unit, a dual-antenna GNSS inertial navigation system at this week’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Novi, Michigan. Compared with the company’s other systems, the Quanta is intended for easy integration, allowing developers to create their own breakout box around the development board, rather than having to integrate the existing box into a vehicle. It allows developers to have the velocity, position and orientation of the car, and can integrate that data with other data, such as sensor data from lidar, radar and cameras.

“This kind of device is an engineer’s bread and butter, because they’re able to play with the PCB board, making it better for integration in an existing system,” says a company spokesperson.

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Taylor Lochrane introduces the FHWA’s CARMA platform, which enables V2X communication for the research and development of cooperative driving automation, in advance of his presentation at the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium.

Dr Taylor Lochrane is the technical program manager for the USDOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). He leads and manages the CARMA program, part of the USDOT’s effort advancing research and development to accelerate market readiness and deployment of Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA).

What will you be speaking about at the conference?

I will be talking about CARMA, which is the Federal Highway Administration’s premier research initiative that is leading innovation in cooperative driving automation.

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Neal Walters, product liability group leader at law firm Ballard Spahr, previews his presentation at the ADAS & AV Legal Issues & Liabilities World Congress on class-action litigation. He also looks at how the field will change when autonomous vehicles begin to be rolled out.

What will you be speaking about at the congress?

I’m going to be talking about the legal risks that are unique to the development of autonomous vehicles and ADAS. That includes anticipating the new risks that are going to be presented by changes in the mode of transportation, as we transition from a model with individual ownership toward an increased reliance on ride hailing in autonomous vehicles.

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Praveen Chandrasekar, regional senior product manager for autonomous driving at TomTom, explains how HD maps create an essential fallback for the vehicle’s sensors, previewing his presentation at the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium.

What will you be speaking about?

The path to achieving highly automated driving differs across solutions providers and auto makers, but a few priorities are similar – comfort and safety. Improvements in traditional sensors such as camera, radar and lidar have greatly increased the perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles, but without HD maps, AVs cannot accurately understand their position on the road and plan their path for the road ahead.

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Arm, Toyota, GM, DENSO, Continental, Bosch, NXP and Nvidia are creating the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC), a new group of industry leaders focused on accelerating the delivery of safer and affordable autonomous vehicles on a large scale.

The main aim of the initiative is to make fully self-driving vehicles a reality through industry-level collaboration. It will do this, in a first step, by developing a set of recommendations for a system architecture and a computing platform that reconciles the performance requirements of autonomous systems with the vehicle-specific requirements and resulting limitations of size, temperature range, power consumption and safety.

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