Hyundai Mobis said on the 16th that it built an evaluation and verification system that can repeatedly test software-defined vehicles (SDV) and core electronic control units (ECU) for Autonomous Driving.
The system was built based on data secured in real driving and parking environments through sensors mounted on test vehicles. The key is to implement a virtual environment that includes nighttime, rainy weather, and unexpected situations that are difficult to reproduce at will. Hyundai Mobis plans to use this system to enhance the perception performance and stability of Autonomous Driving and advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) technologies.
In particular, the system is mounted on a platform that links multiple simulators in parallel reflecting verification scenarios. Hyundai Mobis plans to expand the number of simulators to 60 to significantly shorten evaluation and verification time. Once the simulators are expanded, a verification period that takes about 10,000 hours can be completed in just one week.
Hyundai Mobis plans to actively use this system and platform to verify the performance and reliability of Autonomous Driving sensors such as radar, cameras, lidar, and ultrasound. Hyundai Mobis preemptively built this evaluation and verification system, which can operate large-scale sensor data in a one-stop manner, to aggressively pursue parts orders in the SDV field.
Recently, evaluation and verification to ensure product safety and performance has emerged as an important process in addition to technology development. This is because global automakers are demanding data-based verification results on the scale of tens of thousands of hours before adopting parts applied to SDVs. To that end, Hyundai Mobis chose to verify by combining real data and virtual data instead of securing data over several years through test vehicles.
Hyundai Mobis plans to advance the evaluation and verification system through data linkage and collaboration with major global research hubs.
Ko Bong-cheol, executive director in charge of electronics research at Hyundai Mobis, said, "In the SDV and Autonomous Driving paradigm, the area as important as technology development is evaluation and verification," adding, "With the establishment of this evaluation and verification system, we will expand both the speed and scope of verification and further boost the competitiveness of orders for core SDV parts."