Sensor simulation is critical to enabling the end-to-end testing of automated driving. aiSim relies on its in-house developed engine throughout the process providing an efficient and transparent pipeline for simulating sensors.  The Khronos Group’s Vulkan API provides a single interface towards the GPUs for all tasks required for the physics-based simulation of sensors, including cameras, LiDARs, radars, and ultrasonics. Vulkan’s hardware agnostic and open API has native support for raytracing and rasterization in multi-GPU environments enabling the realistic simulation of all sensor modalities even in real-time environments.

Simulation is the only way to reach the level of maturity and confidence to release automated driving functions. From day one, aiSim has  provided support for the automated execution and evaluation of tests integrated in continuous integration continuous deployment (CI/CD) toolchains. aiSim 3.0 brings integration with Cloud Service Providers' platforms to the next level by providing an infrastructure and framework for on-premises infrastructures, fully cloud-based operation, or hybrid methods. Automation is important, but a manual, forensics approach to simulation is essential as well. aiSim 3.0 comes with a standalone, user-friendly interface providing an easy way to create scenarios, sensor setups, change the weather and environmental parameters and analyze the results of the simulation in a single application.