Beijing (Gasgo)- China’s Tongji University recently unveiled the “Cloud-Connected Smart Vehicle Fully Autonomous Test System”, the world’s first cloud-controlled multi-participant testing system for smart and connected vehicles.
This system aims to create the industry’s first closed test facility capable of conducting continuous testing of the dynamic city NOA (Navigation on Autopilot) scenario, addressing the diverse safety verification needs of high-level autonomous vehicles in complex and dynamic urban environments.
Professor Xiong Lu, the project leader, explained that current evaluation systems feature simplified test scenarios, single-type traffic participants, fixed operating settings, and fragmented functional tests. To address these issues, Tongji University developed this advanced system at the Intelligent Connected Vehicle Test and Evaluation Base, which has been licensed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.
The system consists of two main platforms: cloud-based digital twins and simulated traffic participants, along with three key technologies: automatic generation of dangerous scenarios, collaborative planning between multiple traffic participants, and high-precision end-of-vehicle motion control. This enables the creation of a complex traffic test environment featuring dynamic traffic flow, diverse traffic participants, flexible operational settings, proactive generation of conflict scenarios, and meeting the safety verification requirements of high-level autonomous vehicles.
This test system has been tested against the world’s best smart vehicle test sites such as Mcity in the US and AstaZero in Sweden. It is the first system to realize real-world traffic scenario testing applications on a large, dynamic and complex scale.
