AS ADAS GETS SMARTER, SO MUST THE WAYS TO TEST IT

IT'S ONE THING to load cars with safety systems such as ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), but as they get more sophisticated, it becomes more complicated to ensure they always do what's expected.

- JESSE CROSSE

So manufacturers are turning to the most advanced techniques to validate ADAS and make it as accurate as possible.

Volvo is using virtual environments together with real-world testing for safety systems development, software training and validation. Engineers can now scrutinise incident data collected from the advanced sensors of production cars more clearly using an imaging technique called 'Gaussian splatting'. The new approach makes it possible to generate a large number of highly realistic 3D scenes from images taken in the real world. These can then be viewed from different angles and the scene, quite literally, explored.