The Stellantis Group invests both in the development of advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving through various projects. Now the news has come that Opel participates in the STADT:up project (Solutions and Technologies for Automated Driving in the City: Urban Mobility Project), which aims to take new and important steps towards the goal of providing automated driving in urban areas by the end of 2025.
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. A total of 22 partners will work on it. The project is led by Bosch.
Opel will provide artificial intelligence specialists from the Rüsselsheim Engineering Center. Thus, the car manufacturer, through this project, will allow the Stellantis Group to take new steps in the development of autonomous driving technology, as evidenced by Frank JordanHead of Innovation in Germany at Stellantis.
By participating in the STADT:up project, Opel, as our German brand, is further promoting automated driving in urban environments on behalf of Stellantis. The Rüsselsheim Engineering Center engineers draw on many years of experience in this field. At the same time, we strengthen our good cooperation with research institutes outside the company and continue to support young scientists.
Thus, the STADT:up project aims to develop concepts and pilot applications for autonomous driving in urban traffic. In the future, cars will have to safely manage all urban traffic scenarioseven the most difficult ones. In addition, they will have to respond to all situations within milliseconds.
The various activities of autonomous driving range from the global perception of the environment and the location of road users, through the prediction, interaction and cooperation with other vehicles, to planning the behavior and maneuvers of one’s own vehicle. Of fundamental importance is the question of how mixed traffic will develop, consisting of pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles for various purposes and local public transport.
In particular, the artificial intelligence specialists of the site in Rüsselsheim will take care of improving the algorithms for the perception and management of particularly complex traffic situations. In addition to improving the algorithms, the goal is to improve the decision-making process of neural networks and use them to test the plausibility of an automated driving system.
Opel’s goal is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the environmental recognition system in a test vehicle by the end of 2025.
Source: HD Motori
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