This advanced simulation engine is like driver’s ed for autonomous cars
0This advanced simulation engine is like driver’s ed for autonomous cars.
Cognata, an Israel-based artificial intelligence startup, is showing off its simulation engine for autonomous cars at CES 2018.
The Cognata platform is a virtual world simulation engine that gives autonomous vehicle manufacturers and developers a way to train AI brains to drive safely. It’s like traffic school for robots. According to the company:
Cognata provides a realistic virtual automotive environment that simulates real-world test driving and generates fast, highly accurate results. The simulation engine reproduces sensor input by emulating interactions with real-world materials. Cognata can recreate cities anywhere in the world, allowing a dramatically expanded range of testing scenarios beyond the current limited geographies.
Developers can simulate any city in the world and set parameters like weather, traffic density, and time of day. The environment provides viable data for all the sensors a driverless car uses – RADAR, LIDAR, image recognition feedback, human driver predcitions, it’s all there.