Robotic ADAS Testing Bridges the Sim Gap

ASI's Swarming technology allows collision-avoidance and other tests at high speeds on vehicles that human drivers find hard to match.

A Utah company has developed a system to allow fully robotic testing of ADAS on production vehicles as one solution to the dangers of testing such systems with human drivers at high speeds and in real traffic.

At the 2022 Automotive Testing Expo in Novi, Mich., ASI Automotive Product Manager Jed Judd talked about the system, called Swarming, and its control software Mobius. He said the company's development is a response to OEMs finding that simulation testing alone isn't enough for advanced ADAS. He also said that even professional human drivers have difficulty executing different test scenarios accurately due to what he called “a significant pucker factor” at high speeds.