Future Technologies at CES

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Each year thousands of people attend CES, a massive trade show that is held in Las Vegas, to see what new and emerging technologies companies are developing. This year’s attendees saw everything from a flying vehicle that resembled a jet ski to self-driving cars.

SIMCenter was able to be part of CES this year by collaborating with the Transportation Research Center (TRC), the city of Columbus, and the City of Dublin for the Smart City Partnership Showcase at the Wind River booth with the goal to advance smart, connected, and autonomous technologies. Wind River is a software company that helps with, “the challenges and opportunities critical infrastructure companies face when evolving and modernizing their systems as they work to realize the full potential of IoT”. While at CES SIMCenter’s director Prof. Shawn Midlam-Mohler, gave a presentation on simulation and innovation in ADAS and autonomous modeling.

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Prof. Midlam-Mohler posed the question, “How can autonomous vehicles demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries, without being driven hundreds of millions of miles?”  He discussed how the open source software toolchain will help ADAS/AV vehicle system development, how to maintain effective costs for widespread adoption, and the top HILS techniques and approaches for emulating physical complex systems.

One goal for this presentation was to promote the Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Consortium (AVSC) that SIMCenter is hosting. The three companies currently in the consortium are Winder River, Honda, and Ford. All companies involved in the three-year consortium pay a $80,000 per year membership fee and receive shared ownership of all results. The companies can also propose additional work packages to the consortium at any time.  

While at CES Prof. Midlam-Mohler and Heather Sever, Associate Director of SIMCenter, met with multiple companies to talk about what SIMCenter was currently working on, as well as how SIMCenter could help their company with its research. Talking to companies Heather found that they wanted know, “what exactly can SIMCenter do”, and if SIMCenter only works with automotive technology. The answer to that is no; SIMCenter can run simulations for any kind of structure, and can manipulate and model that structure in a wide variety of ways. This gives SIMCenter the ability to work with any company in an endless amount of aspects. SIMCenter’s time at CES came to a close with the acquisition of several valuable contacts that SIMCenter will be following up with.

By Gage Gibbs, SIMCenter writing intern

Category: Industry