Digital Twins for Autonomous Solutions in Confined Areas

Important results from the project

By creation of digital representations of physical sites to be used in simulation, it will be possible to expedite verification of autonomous transport solutions by allowing for comprehensive verification before advancing to physical deployment using simulation. Moreover, by leveraging procedurally generated virtual environments it will allow to more efficiently detect unexpected behaviors and allow for a quick and hardened verification process.

Expected long term effects

The primary objectives was to create synthetic worlds for simulation environments in autonomous transport solutions. One of the objectives - to create a digital twin of a VAS test site - was not met due to unforeseen external constraints and delays in construction which fall beyond the control of the project parties. The scope of the project was reshaped to improve surrounding work packages. The remaining processes and deliverables within procedural generation of 3D worlds, stipulated boundary conditions and management of synthetic asset libraries were successfully achieved.

Approach and implementation

This project comprises five work packages, where the main topic is creation of synthetic worlds based on various inputs such as logged data, stipulated boundary conditions and procedural generation. Originally a work package was intended for the creation of another digital twin however this was removed due to unforeseen circumstances. To compensate for the removal of this work package, a replacement work package was added to maintain the project workload and to further strengthen the creation of procedural generation to best fulfill the objectives.