Simulation dramatically improves sensor capabilities, accelerates sensor-vehicle integration and enables rapid performance analysis across a wide range of operating 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:
Ansys multiphysics solutions, including optomechanical, thermal interactions and an optical materials properties library, enable rapid emitter and receiver design and placement optimization.
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.
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.
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.
Ansys SPEOS predicts the illumination and optical performance of systems to save on prototyping time and costs while improving your product’s efficiency.
Multipurpose, full wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, components, interconnects, connectors, ICs and PCBs.
Ansys VRXPERIENCE Sensors readily integrates the simulation of ground-truth sensors of camera and lidar sensor types to virtually assess complex ADAS systems and autonomous vehicles.
"Radar systems play a central role in safety systems and must be tested with vehicle control systems and algorithms to validate safe operation."
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.
An optical system design solution to predict the illumination and optical performance of your product early in the design process while improving its efficiency.
CFD simulations of vehicles in rainy conditions were performed using Ansys Fluent. Rain drop data was exported to Ansys SPEOS for camera and lidar simulations. SPEOS results were analyzed with an open-source perception algorithm software to determine bounding boxes and confidence levels in identifying various objects on the road.
From lighting to sensors to vision, optical components are playing a crucial role in vehicle safety and comfort. Validated against CIE 171:2006, Ansys SPEOS is used by automotive engineers to design, validate and optimize their optical components. Attend 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.
This webinar will cover automotive exterior lighting industry best practices, where an overview of the key benefits of Ansys SPEOS and Ansys AVxcelerate simulations and the capabilities required to realize these benefits will be shared. Through examples, we will showcase how Ansys portfolio solutions are helping our customers design transformational products.
Learn about new advances in Ansys HFSS SBR+ technology that allow engineers to conduct high-fidelity, physics-based simulations of full-scale, realistic traffic scenarios. This groundbreaking technology empowers users to rapidly design and validate virtual radar sensors that address range, Doppler effects, direction-of-arrival (DoA) and micro-Doppler.
With Ansys SPEOS, optical simulation is accessible to everyone. View this on-demand webinar to learn how you can perform optical system optimization and validation within a multiphysics environment.
