1-2023

Anritsu, dSPACE and Apposite Technologies Collaborate to Realize
an AVP Test Environment for Autonomous Driving Use Cases
Anritsu Corporation (President:
Hirokazu Hamada) has developed
a test and simulation environment
for Automated Valet
Parking (AVP) in collaboration
with dSPACE GmbH (dSPACE)
and Apposite Technologies LLC
(Apposite). A demonstration
exhibition was held as part of
the 5GAA Member Symposium
event in Malaga, Spain on October
20th.
Valet parking is a service in
which a professional parking
attendant parks drivers’ cars
at large-scale parking facilities
and commercial facilities,
mainly in Europe and the United
States. AVP enables this parking
to be done automatically, without
any driver in the vehicle.
AVP Technical Report Version
1.0 was released by 5GAA in
June 2022, and a wireless communication
(Type-2) operation
scheme linked with parking
garage infrastructure and users’
smartphones was proposed. AVP
is being developed as an autonomous
driving use case which
can be deployed in the short
term. AVP Type-1 autonomous
driving vehicles require expensive
high-performance computing
and sensing, while AVP
Type-2 communication-cooperative
vehicles do not require such
installations, reducing vehicle
costs and making implementation
easier.
Since AVP Type-2 requires
highly reliable end-to-end communications,
a test system needs
to evaluate QoS management
and impairment effects in the
IP layer. The wireless connectivity
environment also needs to
be evaluated. The test solution
set up a digital twin environment
incorporating both virtual
and real devices. This allows the
system tests and certification
required to improve the reliability
of AVP Type-2 to be started
before the actual devices are
available. Automotive OEMs,
Tier 1 suppliers, and mobile network
operators have shown great
interest in the demonstration, and
we will continue to develop this
simulation environment and contribute
to the realization of AVP.
dSPACE‘s software-based tool
integrates and simulates environment/infrastructure/sensor/vehicle
information only on a PC. In
this demonstration, AVP System
is installed in it. Vehicle motion
control commands (VMC) generated
by the AVP System are
transmitted to the OEM Application,
which displays the state
of vehicle control, via 5G communication
using Anritsu‘s 5G
base station simulator. VMC
commands pass through the
Apposite Network emulator on
the way to OEM Application. IP
data delay and data packet loss
are added by the emulator, and so
vehicle control becomes unstable
due to its influence in the
OEM Application. AVP developers
design control systems and
networks to keep vehicle control
stable. A virtual vehicle that has
received VMC (Vehicle Motion
Control) commands across the
5G network is automatically driving
in a parking lot according
to control instructions sent by
the parking garage.
The base station simulator
Radio communication test station
MT8000A is a test platform
that provides network simulation
for 5G radio access technology
(RAT*6) and provides a development
evaluation and certification
test environment for automotive
use cases such as Telematics,
Infotainment, and V2X.
Anritsu Corporation
www.anritsu.com
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