OmniCAV
Lead Participant:
AIMSUN LIMITED
Abstract
"OmniCAV will lay the foundations for the development of a comprehensive, robust and secure simulator, aimed at providing a certification tool for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) that can be used by regulatory and accreditation bodies, insurers and manufacturers to accelerate the safe development of CAVs.
It brings together a team of eleven internationally renowned organisations, with decades of accumulated knowledge in the area, in order to produce a single-point-of-call simulator to establish when a CAV can safely progress from a testbed to road trial.
To achieve this, OmniCAV will use highly detailed road maps, together with a powerful combination of traffic management, accident and CCTV data, to create a high-fidelity dual (traffic and driving) simulation environment, including AI-trained road users to interact with the AV under test. Scenarios for testing will be developed and randomised in a holistic way to avoid CAVs training to specific conditions, whilst maximising coverage, and the integrity of the testing environment will be taken into consideration through creation of a root-of-trust design to secure the test inputs, simulator configuration and resulting test outputs.
Critically, the simulator will offer market-leading coverage of a representative element of the UK road network, through encompassing rural roads, peri-urban and urban roads, to help enable autonomy for all.
Representatives of the key end-users, including a local authority, an OEM and an insurance provider, will be engaged throughout to understand their needs.
The validity of the synthetic test environment compared to the real-world is of particular importance, and OmniCAV will be tested and refined through an iterative approach involving real-world comparisons and working in conjunction with a CAV test-bed.
This is an ambitious project aiming to step-change the safe trialing of CAVs in a safe, holistic and challenging manner in order to accelerate their training, deployment and adoption."
It brings together a team of eleven internationally renowned organisations, with decades of accumulated knowledge in the area, in order to produce a single-point-of-call simulator to establish when a CAV can safely progress from a testbed to road trial.
To achieve this, OmniCAV will use highly detailed road maps, together with a powerful combination of traffic management, accident and CCTV data, to create a high-fidelity dual (traffic and driving) simulation environment, including AI-trained road users to interact with the AV under test. Scenarios for testing will be developed and randomised in a holistic way to avoid CAVs training to specific conditions, whilst maximising coverage, and the integrity of the testing environment will be taken into consideration through creation of a root-of-trust design to secure the test inputs, simulator configuration and resulting test outputs.
Critically, the simulator will offer market-leading coverage of a representative element of the UK road network, through encompassing rural roads, peri-urban and urban roads, to help enable autonomy for all.
Representatives of the key end-users, including a local authority, an OEM and an insurance provider, will be engaged throughout to understand their needs.
The validity of the synthetic test environment compared to the real-world is of particular importance, and OmniCAV will be tested and refined through an iterative approach involving real-world comparisons and working in conjunction with a CAV test-bed.
This is an ambitious project aiming to step-change the safe trialing of CAVs in a safe, holistic and challenging manner in order to accelerate their training, deployment and adoption."
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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AIMSUN LIMITED | £306,679 | £ 214,675 |
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Participant |
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UKAEA | ||
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL | £622,020 | £ 622,020 |
LATENT LOGIC LTD | £487,709 | £ 341,396 |
AIMSUN LTD | ||
EUI LIMITED | £47,794 | £ 23,897 |
THALES UK LIMITED | ||
ORDNANCE SURVEY LTD | £385,265 | £ 192,633 |
ALCHERA TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | £99,800 | £ 69,860 |
ARRIVAL LIMITED | £184,468 | £ 92,234 |
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL | ||
XPI SIMULATION LIMITED | £766,671 | £ 383,336 |
THATCHAM RESEARCH | £25,000 | |
ARCADIS CONSULTING (UK) LIMITED | £134,589 | £ 67,294 |
ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED | ||
ARRIVAL JET LTD | ||
UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY (UKAEA) | £75,005 | £ 75,005 |
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK | £619,933 | £ 619,933 |
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK | ||
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL | ||
INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |
Mark Brackstone (Project Manager) |