WMG will work with RDM Group - the UK’s only designer and manufacturer of driverless Pods - in a project called INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques (INTACT).
The project, funded by Innovate UK, will enable Coventry-based automotive innovation experts RDM to test its vehicles on a driving simulator at WMG.
Professor Paul Jennings from WMG at the University of Warwick said: “The vehicles will be tested on a state-of-the-art simulator we have just installed in WMG. It will use a LIDAR scan (essentially a high resolution laser scan of an environment) of 30 miles of real roads around the city of Coventry to test vehicles in the simulator.”
He added: “It can be configured so that different vehicles can be driven into it for testing, and the real world wireless environment will be recreated too. We believe both will be novel capabilities for such an advanced simulator.”
RDM Group has been involved in the design and build of the pods and will also be a key partner in the recently announced £20 million Autodrive consortium.
David Keene, chairman of RDM Group, said: “It is fantastic that we have such advanced simulation technology at our disposal to analyse how driverless vehicles will react to the surroundings of Coventry.
“It will speed up the testing process considerably and help with the positioning of the sensors on the pods. Yet another example of how university and industry can work together to put the region and the country at the forefront of driverless technology.”
