Clients

A well-known auto factory

Sector

Automotive

To launch its first level-4 autonomous vehicle, a car manufacturer has to ensure its safety and robustness with regard to everyday traffic situations. ALTEN is assisting our Client in virtual-based safety testing for the self-driving vehicle.

To reduce the costs and duration of the tests, ALTEN’s Engineers retrieve the data recorded by cars during conventional driving and use it for an ultra-realistic virtual simulation, which means that the vehicles can be tested risk-free on more complex maneuvers.

ALTEN’s Engineers are working, in particular, on:

• Data fusion: the data recorded by the vehicle is processed and filtered with the aim of collecting important information (vehicle response, speed, braking, etc.);

• Environment and vehicle simulation: once the environment and the vehicle have been modeled virtually, the vehicle can be randomly subjected to real-world driving disturbances;

• Correction of discrepancies: testing under physical conditions helps to identify and correct any handling discrepancies between the virtual and real environment.

ALTEN’s ability to quickly form a multidisciplinary team of our Engineers - data scientists, vehicle dynamics engineers, robotics engineers, simulation modeling engineers - was vital to the success of this project.