The State of Modeling, Simulation, and Data Utilization within Industry: An Autonomous Vehicles Perspective

Understand

The aviation industry has a market driven need to maintain and develop enhanced simulation capabilities for a wide range of application domains.

• In particular, the future growth and disruptive ability of smart cities, autonomous vehicles and in general, urban mobility, hinges on the development of state of the art simulation tools and the intelligent utilization of data.
• While aviation based companies have several historical and/or proprietary mission level simulation tools, there is much to learn from the current state of the art within other industries (tangential and competing in scope), as well as in academia.
• The purpose of this paper is to address and decompose the simulation capabilities within the key players of the autonomous vehicle and self-driving car industry (Toyota, Waymo, BMW, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, etc.), as well as several notable startups within the high fidelity 3D mapping and simulation domain (Mapper, HERE, Cognata, etc.).