Ansys + EasyMile

Driving Autonomous Vehicle Safety

Autonomous vehicles need a high level of information to operate safely. The real-time data-processing is driven by input from a complex system of lidars, radars, cameras, internet of things sensors, GPS and navigation software, all working together to give a 360-degree perspective of vehicle surroundings. Demonstrating safety at this level is difficult, requiring clearly defined methods and tools for managing the complex architecture of these nonclassical systems.

Working together, Ansys and CADFEM France enable EasyMile engineers to work from a single model for all safety activities across platforms — significantly shortening development cycles, speeding time to market, and reducing operational costs for EasyMile’s driverless shuttle and tow tractor solutions.

Leading the Way in All-Electric Autonomous Vehicles

Today, fully electric driverless shuttles roll through college and business campuses and wind through city streets to shape the future of transportation. Moreover, all-electric driverless tractors enable autonomous material handling in manufacturing environments to transport materials seamlessly, without interruption, speeding time to market. 

EasyMile delivers complete solutions for driverless mobility and goods transportation, partnering with blue chip original equipment manufacturers to autonomize their electric vehicles. Predetermined standards for safety already in place for those industries must be tweaked for the safe operation and control of an autonomous vehicle. EasyMile faces the challenge of working with highly complex new systems, without clearly defined methods for demonstrating the safety of their autonomous vehicle applications. This is where Ansys medini analyze comes in.

With the support of the Ansys team, EasyMile successfully customized medini with an extension to help them drive all safety concepts and requirements into one model for both their passenger and material transport applications. The tool supports their engineering approach and can generate the documentation of all their products across platforms.