AstaZero accredited testbed for active safety and automated driving systems
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Summary
- country: SE
- Offered by: AstaZero
- Service(s) using this infrastructure: SE_0003, SE_0005
Description
AstaZero is an independent Euro NCAP accredited testbed for active safety and automated driving systems owned by RISE. In addition to offering verification and validation services and a test site to its customers, it conducts research and development on future test methods, in particular on testing of automated vehicles.
AstaZero brings to the proposed AgriTEF project its knowledge and technology on test automation for automated vehicles. This includes test methods, test control, test surveillance, certification test and test analysis. The system consists of a server software that steers, controls, and monitors physical and virtual objects in a test scenario. To perform this task, access to the physical objects via an ISO standard interface and protocol is needed.
Physical objects can be of several different types: vehicles, robots, drones, automated and semi-automated vehicles as well as target carriers and radio-controlled cars. Virtual objects of any kind can be injected into tests as desired, for example when testing using physical objects is deemed too dangerous or costly.
A vital part of a long-term strategy of digitalization and automation of AstaZero is to expand the offer to customers by taking the test control and test surveillance system to other sites and locations than the AstaZero proving ground. Here, AgriTEF forms an interesting case where test control and surveillance can be applied in an agricultural context, as a service to enhance the capability and quality of future farming.
For an example of AstaZero test control in action, see https://vimeo.com/674882364. Virtual injection is demonstrated in https://youtu.be/fFCtoSd30A4. Remote driving of a truck in Sweden from Spain over 5G is shown in https://youtu.be/mWu53vAdtYE.