Hexagon ramps up ADAS software innovation with cloud-native quality test automation solution

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New cloud solution simplifies ADAS software testing by integrating comprehensive 'real world' vehicle environment and safety scenarios into automated continuous software integration and testing workflows

BENGALURU, India, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division introduces a new cloud-native solution to test, train, and validate Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle systems. Utilising hyperscale computing and automation, Virtual Test Drive X (VTDx) enables the automotive industry to validate the quality and function of software against thousands of real-world scenarios automatically, accelerating the time to market for safe mobility innovations.

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Software plays an increasing role in vehicle design, enabling innovations that deliver convenience and safety for customers, but today's software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are putting more pressure on the automotive teams delivering ADAS features. As vehicles integrate more sensors, adopt advanced chips and operating systems and apply increasingly complex AI and software algorithms, software development and testing create bottlenecks that delay vehicle launches and feature deployment. Safety and compliance is paramount, but the business impact is also tangible — underperforming ADAS features frustrate customers and vehicle recalls significantly impact brand loyalty and profits.

Ensuring the quality and safety of ADAS software developments is very cost and time intensive, but critical because the cost of fixing defects when a vehicle is ready for production is fifteen times greater. VTDx addresses these challenges with a comprehensive consumption-based service that makes it easier to scale up virtual prototyping and mitigate the delays, high-cost, and safety risks associated with physical testing. The Software as a Service (SaaS) is built from the bottom up to utilise the cloud computing power and automation of Hexagon's Nexus digital reality platform, enabling software teams to build rigorous testing into their continuous test and integration workflows for ADAS and autonomous vehicle systems.

From an intuitive web interface, ADAS engineers can easily create and configure their system under test (SUT) such as ADAS algorithms. They can validate their SUT with highly accurate physics-based simulations from Hexagon's environment simulation engine that leverages its 15 years of domain expertise. When developers run a test, VTDx executes the OpenDRIVE and OpenSCENARIO standard compliant software-in-the-loop (SIL) test programmes. By orchestrating tens or thousands of simulations — of as many scenarios as needed — automatically and simultaneously, companies can significantly reduce delays in configuration and computing time for their standardised SIL test programmes.