ANSYS SCADE Vision

ANSYS solutions address all key elements of autonomous vehicles (AV): sensors, human-machine interfaces, automated driving system software, control software, computing platform and vehicle platform. ANSYS SCADE Vision powered by Hologram completes the ANSYS solutions for AV to reduce drastically the costs of testing and safety activities for AI-based AV embedded perception software.

Autonomous Vehicles systems need to operate safely in more and more complex environments, incurring a dramatic increase in the cost of safety validation. The future of the AV industry may depend on which grows faster: market size or validation costs. The industry needs a solution to break the “drive-find-fix” barrier for automated driving systems. From a safety perspective, complexity is about how many “edge cases” AV perception systems might encounter (an edge case is a situation that can result in a failure and that has not been foreseen in the design phase).

SCADE Vision speeds up the discovery of weaknesses in your AV embedded perception software that may be tied to edge cases, and helps identify their root causes – also called triggering events – by automatically applying augmentations to your input sensor data to identify fragility in your AI-based embedded perception software – (i) While safety drivers manually record surprising behaviour and direct autonomy developers to debug edge cases found, SCADE Vision solution finds fragilities in the AI-based autonomous vehicle perception software automatically; no manual oversight is required. (ii) While finding weaknesses in autonomous driving system software requires massive amounts of expensive labelled data, SCADE Vision does not require labelled data; instead, it searches through raw sensor data recorded by your autonomous systems. (iii) While new versions of autonomous vehicle perception software must be “test driven” on real roads, risking accidents, SCADE Vision assesses the robustness of perception algorithms using software-in-the-loop testing before your software ever hits the road.

SCADE Vision drastically reduces costs of AV embedded perception software testing and safety, making every mile count, while deriving maximum value from your AV data. This enables you to Get safer perception, accelerate time to value, maximize engineering resources, turbocharge simulation, and maximize the value in the most expensive testing.