Virtual Test Drive
VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
Complete tool chain for driving simulation applications
- VTD is a software package with over twenty years of existence in the market, and it is in service at numerous installations in the automotive, aerospace, and railroad industry worldwide, with applications in mining, and farming. It can be used in MiL, SiL, HiL, DiL, and ViL applications.
- VTD’s Road Designer (ROD) is an interactive road network editor, which is/can be used as the basis for 3D world creation. It consists of extensive libraries of 3D objects and textures representing different countries, for the creation of either complete databases or elemental building blocks (socalled ‘tiles’).Recent advances in VTD have allowed it to do massive scaling of scenarios on the Cloud, thus helping in ‘edge case’ detection. This is done by analyzing millions of scenarios with thousands of parallel processes allowing for billions of virtual test miles to be done faster than real-time simulation, enabling an increased speed of deployment for ADAS and AD systems
VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
Complete tool chain for driving simulation applications
Creation of Virtual Worlds
Our interactive Road Network Editor (ROD) allows to design road and rail networks in full detail with unlimited numbers of lanes, complex intersections, comprehensive signs and signaling. It links and exports logic and graphic data consistently from a single source.
Virtual worlds can be designed from scratch or compiled from existing database tiles. Various import and export formats as well as large libraries of 3D models and country specific signs/signals accelerate the creation process. All logics data is exported compliant to the OpenDRIVE® format. OpenCRG® data can be linked to a database. The export of the graphics data may be customized.
VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
Complete tool chain for driving simulation applications
Configuration of Virtual Worlds
Dynamic content is defined with our interactive scenario editor. It visualizes the underlying OpenDRIVE® database and allows the user to specify traffic as individual objects and as autonomous swarms around key entities. Both, left- and right-hand driving environments are supported. Our large library of vehicles, pedestrians and driver properties may easily be customized. With a few mouse clicks, the user may define paths for individual entities, configure signal control programs, place objects and add events from a large set of actions.
Real-time monitoring and command injection is supported during the simulation phase. Native support for OpenSCENARIO has been available since 2018.
VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
Complete tool chain for driving simulation applications
Simulations of Virtual Worlds
No matter what environment you are running in (XiL), what your time-base looks like (real-time or non real-time) or which additional components are involved (co-simulations) – VTD will seamlessly adapt. At any time, the user may take full control over the execution of the simulation, specify varying time steps and consume object, image and sensor data via a whole range of interfaces (network, shared memory etc.). Any number of externally computed entities may be injected and multiple installations may either run in parallel or inter-connected. VTD may be operated from a single computer up to a full-scale HPC environment.
VIRES Virtual Test Drive (VTD)
Complete tool chain for driving simulation applications
Customization of Virtual Worlds
VTD is an out-of-the-box solution but doesn’t stick to this box. The user may customize VTD on various levels. We provide SDKs along with ready-to-go templates for sensor simulation (object-list based and physics based), dynamics simulation and image generation. Our open interfaces for run-time data and simulation control make it easy to integrate VTD in any environment. VTD runs on Linux systems and is – by its extensive use of network interfaces – not only modular but also extremely scalable.
