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New high-performance product family for data-driven developments for autonomous driving

Environment perception sensors are critically important to the operation of autonomous vehicles. These sensors generate ever growing volumes of data. With the AUTERA product family, dSPACE now offers a system that can read, process, and record raw sensor data from lidar, radar, and camera sensors as well as from automotive buses and networks, with best-in-class bandwidth.

Autonomous vehicles feature a large number of high-resolution sensors used to perceive their surroundings. These sensors create multiple data streams, which have to be merged into an overall environment image. This overall picture of the operating environment then has to be made available for other algorithms such as trajectory planning. Object recognition and sensor fusion are frequently aided by artificial intelligence (AI). To develop, train, and test the complex AI-based systems, a sizeable quantity (petabytes) and quality of data collected during real test drives is required.

Therefore, recording all relevant data plays an essential role in this data-driven development process. The special challenge is to meet the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Therefore, a recording system must not only be scalable, it must also be flexibly configurable so that it can be adapted to a variety of vehicle configurations, such as sensor interfaces, buses, and networks.

AUTERA – Shaping the Autonomous Era

AUTERA is a dSPACE product family designed for data-driven development in the area of autonomous driving and driver assistance. Its core member is the AUTERA AutoBox – a modular robust in-vehicle data logging and prototyping system with excellent performance. It can read, process, and record raw data from lidar, radar, and camera sensors as well as automotive buses and networks with best-in-class bandwidth.

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Preparing, executing and monitoring your application with multisensory software in RTMaps RTMaps from Intempora, a dSPACE company, is a component-based software development and execution environment that allows users to time-stamp, record, synchronize, and play back data from various sensors and vehicle buses. With RTMaps’ intuitive graphical user interface, you can easily drag and drop I/O interfaces (e.g., for visual sensors, filters, and other building blocks) from comprehensive libraries to define inputs, outputs, and data processing steps in your application. While running, RTMaps captures and records data from different sensor types and protocols (camera, lidar, radar, automotive buses) with high-precision time-stamping. This ensures that all data is time-correlated and can be used in a synchronized manner in all processing steps and when replaying data. To ensure economic efficiency in fleet applications, RTMaps is available as a cost-effective runtime version. In addition to RTMaps, the Linux-based AUTERA system can be used to operate open-source programming software like ROS.	Graphical user interface RTMaps and AUTERA AutoBox.
Bus Configuration for Quick Vehicle Integration When you integrate AUTERA into a vehicle, it can interface directly with the vehicle’s bus and network infrastructure to capture or process messages from other devices. To ensure optimal use, the Bus Manager makes it possible to configure the bus interfaces by also supporting relevant standards such as AUTOSAR for the communication matrix.	Configuration of bus interfaces with the Bus Manager.
Tagging While Logging RTag is a live manual tagging software application that runs on tablets or notebooks. With RTag, it is easy to manually annotate driving situations with customized tags. Thanks to RTag, you can easily mark encountered situations such as roadworks, temporary speed limit, crossroads and overtaking with a variety of configurable tags and also monitor and control the sensor stream recordings. Using tags makes it easy to find relevant situations more quickly among the large data volumes.	Mark relevant situations while recording with RTag.
Comprehensive Tool Environment This comprehensive tool environment gives you a great jumpstart for data logging and for rapid prototyping new functions, while at the same time it can be expanded with your preferred tools.

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AUTERA – Shaping the Autonomous Era

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