Five and Cognata jointly introduce comprehensive verification approach for AV systems

Five and Cognata have partnered up to deliver a modular, cloud-based, end-to-end development and testing platform for Automatic Lane-Keeping System (ALKS).

The two companies’ integrated technologies will enable teams to hyper-scale the simulation of testing and development scenarios and speed up performance analysis of ALKS automated driving systems (ADS) operating within them.

The co-simulation model will leverage Five and Cognata’s combined strengths to offer:

* Fast ‘in-the-loop’ analysis, allowing developers to quickly explore systems and find ADS weaknesses
* A powerful test oracle measuring ADS performance within a rich, high-fidelity simulation environment, making system failures and marginalities easy to find, triage and analyze
* Improved scenario detection, ensuring that time and effort is spent only on solving genuine new issues
* Together, these features significantly reduce the need for expensive real-world testing, while accelerating the development and assurance of new automated driving features.

The platform will be particularly valuable to OEMs and Tier 1s as they work to meet the exacting UNECE regulations required before they can add ALKS features to consumer vehicles. Meeting these regulations requires a major step-up in system performance and reliability when compared to L2 systems. It also demands more complex validation and verification practices, tooling and workflows, slowing down development while dramatically increasing costs.

The Global Autonomous Vehicle Market was valued at USD 54.21 billion in 2019 and is estimated to garner USD 2,044.93 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 39.1% from 2020 to 2030. The global sale of autonomous vehicles was valued at 1.4 million units in 2019 and is projected to reach 58 million units by 2030.

Stan Boland, Co-Founder and CEO of Five, said: “We’re excited to demonstrate how our customers can use our combined platform to materially reduce their R&D overhead for developing automated and fully autonomous driving systems. We’ve always been determined to have consumers benefit from the safety and convenience of self-driving. Putting our novel development platform to work for OEM and Tier 1 customers lets us realise that vision for the first mass-produced systems”.

Danny Atsmon, Founder and CEO of Cognata, said: “Proving these first Level 3 systems are safe is the challenge of the industry right now. The combination of Five and Cognata’s tooling is a big step in solving that problem. Together, Five and Cognata can provide the automotive sector with a significant cost saving and a faster route to market than the US and Chinese tech giants.”

Hordon Kim
International Editor, hordon@powerelectronics.co.kr