Engineering software developer Ansys has said that its second update of 2020 will help drive AV development and validation with new technologies ranging from advanced lidar models to a new sky model for enhanced daylight simulation that extends camera hardware-in-the-loop use cases to daytime.
It stated the release also provides a complete New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) scenario kit for AV function development, enabling rapid simulation of standard NCAP testing scenarios, potentially reducing the cost of physical testing by 50% as advanced driver assistance systems increase in vehicles.
Additionally, Ansys said the new release improves deployment, scalability and performance of AI-based perception software testing through multi-GPU parallelization, making it easy to systematically identify hazards and comply with new safety standards like Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF).
