Autonomous driving state-of-the-art solutions presented

The Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) is a networking platform for cross-domain topics in the area of autonomous driving, presenting the latest developments towards a connected world of autonomous cars.

“Active participation in the OADF is an important undertaking for TISA and mutually beneficial for both organisations. Real time, high-precision traffic information is vital for autonomously driving vehicles. The complex requirements of an automated driving situation, together with the specific conditions of M2M communication in that context, create a formidable challenge that propels our current developments towards next-generation traffic data standards,” said Matthias Unbehaun, Executive Director of TISA, the Traveller Information Services Association, which hosted the meeting.

"2017 will be a major milestone for the ADASIS Forum and we are committed to publish our new ADASIS V3 specification this year. We see the OADF forum as a place for synchronisation of requirements and specifications as well as solutions for our contribution to autonomous driving," said Michael Klingsöhr, ADASIS Chairman.

Some other topics covered in breakout sessions included standardisation requirements for environmental model interfaces and HD Maps on live map delivery chains backend integrity levels and on metadata for map quality.

Dr. Volker Sasse, the OADF speaker and Chairman of the Navigation Data Standard (NDS) Association wrapped up the forum concluding the conference was a successful step forward for the development of autonomous driving.

"The time of simple navigation is over. The Autonomous Driving (AD) revolution means shifting from individualism to collectivism and our OMEGA project takes care of these relevant future AD requirements. The AD information, which is always supported by highly accurate and up to date practices, is selected in flexible geometric or attribute-based portions and will be stored and distributed in multiple locations. Therefore each information user is simultaneously also a collector, meaning the individual serves the community. All standardisation organisations will cooperate in this brave new world,” explained Dr. V. Sasse.