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NVIDIA DRIVE Sim Powered by Omniverse

Accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development in the virtual world.

Simulation for Self-Driving Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles are one of the most complex engineering challenges of our time, requiring brilliant tools from equally brilliant development teams. It isn’t possible to fully and safely test AVs in the real world, so NVIDIA DRIVE Sim™ provides a physically accurate simulation platform designed for fast and efficient AV testing and validation at scale.

The Conference for the Era of AI and the Metaverse

Developer Conference March 20-23 | Keynote March 21

Don't miss these three upcoming DRIVE Developer Day sessions at GTC.

How to Generate Synthetic Data with NVIDIA DRIVE Replicator

Learn how to use NVIDIA DRIVE Replicator for generating physically accurate synthetic datasets along with ground-truth labels for training autonomous vehicle perception models. This session covers the basics of data generation, adding custom..

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Revolutionizing AV Development with Generative AI

We'll present NVIDIA’s vision for the next generation of autonomous vehicle (AV) software, focusing on how generative AI and novel, highly integrated system architectures will radically change how AVs are designed and developed. We'll dive into...

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Scaling Autonomous Vehicle Simulation with NVIDIA DRIVE Sim and Omniverse

NVIDIA DRIVE Sim is a simulation platform for autonomous vehicle verification and validation at scale. To be effective, simulation must cover a diverse range of road conditions, configurations, and environments that are as realistic and varied as...

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Introducing the Neural Reconstruction Engine

The NRE is a set of AI tools that brings real-world data directly into simulation to dramatically increase realism and speed up production. NRE turns video data collected during a drive into interactive 3D test environments where developers can modify scenarios, add synthetic objects, and apply randomizations to make the initial scene even more challenging.

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DRIVE Sim for Closed-Loop Simulation

NVIDIA DRIVE Sim uses physically accurate simulation coupled with high-fidelity 3D environments to help create a virtual proving ground for AV development. Closed-loop testing can be done on individual software components or the entire AV stack.

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Expanding Capabilities with Omniverse

DRIVE Sim is built on the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform, which provides the core simulation and rendering engines. NVIDIA Omniverse is architected with multi-GPU support to provide physically accurate, real-time multi-sensor simulation for autonomous vehicles with tight timing and accuracy requirements.

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NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator for Synthetic Data Generation

With NVIDIA Omniverse™ Replicator, developers can create diverse synthetic datasets for rare and difficult scenarios, including physically based sensor data and pixel-accurate ground-truth labels. These labels include depth, velocity, occlusions, and other hard-to-label parameters.

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See Omniverse Replicator for DRIVE Sim in Action

One Toolchain Across Development Teams (SIL and HIL)

DRIVE Sim is designed so all teams can use the same simulation toolset. It can run SIL on a local workstation or scale to multiple GPUs on one or more nodes. Hardware options are flexible; DRIVE Sim can run locally on an OVX Server in the data center, or using a machine image from one of our many cloud partners. HIL or other XIL use cases can also use NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation™ systems.

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Simulating the User Experience

Using NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, automakers can design their vehicles entirely in the virtual world, streamlining a traditionally lengthy process. It can also be used by engineers and product managers for validating vehicle design to ensure they meet local safety standards. Additionally, potential car buyers can benefit by configuring and experiencing the car from the comfort of their homes.

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Open and Extensible

DRIVE Sim is open, modular, and extensible letting users customize the simulator to their needs. Extensions are easily built using the included SDK for sensor models, vehicle dynamics, traffic models, or interfaces to custom hardware. DRIVE Sim also has a rich ecosystem of partners who provide compatible extensions.

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Meet a Few of Our Sim Ecosystem Partners

Rapidly import environments into DRIVE Sim with MathWorks RoadRunner.

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Leverage a shared ecosystem of compatible simulation-ready content.

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Quickly expand DRIVE Sim's V&V capabilities by connecting to Foretellix's coverage-driven validation platform Foretify™.

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Access FMCW lidar technology in simulation with Aeva’s sensor model in DRIVE Sim.

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Access Arbe’s Perception Imaging Radar models in DRIVE Sim.

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Use DRIVE Sim in conjunction with Cepton’s high-fidelity sensor models.

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Bring assets directly into DRIVE Sim from the Hum3D marketplace.

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Simulate the entire vehicle with dSPACE HIL and DRIVE Sim.

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Achieve detailed lidar simulation with Luminar’s sensor models in DRIVE Sim.

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