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Autonomous Sensor Development

Simulation dramatically improves sensor capabilities, accelerates sensor-vehicle integration and enables rapid performance analysis across a wide range of operating conditions. 

ANSYS APPLICATIONS

High-Performance Sensor Design for All Conditions

Sensors are critical components that provide the information autonomous vehicles need to make intelligent and safe decisions. They must reliably deliver high performance capabilities and function in a wide range of adverse operating conditions, including rain, ice and snow. Simulation is proven to enable engineers to improve sensor performance, determine optimal vehicle integration configurations and examine their behavior across a wide range of operational scenarios. With such safety-critical systems, the most accurate, physics-based simulation tools are required. Ansys provides a comprehensive autonomous vehicle sensor development capability that includes:

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    Lidar
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Autonomous vehicle sensor simulation including lidar, radar and camera design

Sensor Design and Integration

ASD Driverless

Lidar

Ansys multiphysics solutions, including optomechanical, thermal interactions and an optical materials properties library, enable rapid emitter and receiver design and placement optimization.

Camera

Ansys multiphysics simulation solutions enable rapid camera design and placement studies using vision performance analysis and high-fidelity lens transfer functions for optomechanical optimization, placement and validation.

Radar

With Ansys' proven electromagnetic simulation capabilities, engineers can rapidly analyze radar system performance in complex, dynamic scenarios and improve the accuracy of their response to potential hazards.

Perception Software Testing 

SCADE Vision automatically identifies potential vulnerabilities in AV perception systems. It helps you find and categorize edge cases where these systems might exhibit unsafe behavior.

 

Improving Data Builds a Better Autonomous System

The use of simulation through Ansys has allowed engineers access to better data, new tools and improved design, all before the physical prototype stage. With so many components of autonomous vehicles pulling in data via sensors to feed an algorithm, advance every step of the process by increasing the quality of the data and discovering solutions during simulation.

 

 

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Bringing Intelligent Headlamps to Light via Simulation

Once seen as a basic, utilitarian product feature, today automotive headlamps are becoming much more innovative — and a critical source of competitive differentiation.

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WEBINARS

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Headlamp Design and Regulation Check with Ansys Speos

This webinar showcases how Ansys Speos optical design tools make headlamp design simpler and how you can use Ansys’ full library of optical properties, sources and regulations (ECE, FMVSS) to be confident that lamp design meets governmental requirements. Additionally, we will discuss how to manage multiphysics simulation, ranging from optics to mechanical and thermal.

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Real-time Optical Simulation for Reliable and Innovative Automotive Lighting Designs

Watch this webinar to learn how SPEOS predicts the illumination and optical performance of systems, for both interior and exterior lighting, to help engineers reduce development time and costs while improving their product’s accuracy.

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See Optical Simulation in a New Light with Ansys Speos

Learn how you can perform optical system optimization and validation within a multiphysics environment with Ansys Speos.




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