Daimler subsidiary Torc Robotics is working with autonomous vehicle verification specialist Foretellix to enable safe deployment of autonomous trucks.

The collaboration will provide Torc virtual verification able to test millions of driving scenarios to ensure safe deployment of Level-4 autonomous trucks.

Torc Robotics is leading Daimler Truck’s effort to develop and commercialise Level-4 autonomous trucking solutions.

At the centre of the joint solution is Foretellix’s Safety Driven V&V platform that allows development, V&V, and safety teams to specify scenarios easily, generates massive scale testing, and analyses the results.

“Our technology is designed with safety as the first priority,” said Axel Gern, Torc SVP of engineering and managing director of Torc EU. “Our collaboration with Foretellix is in line with Torc’s safety mission. It provides Torc with V&V tools to add to our current toolset, based on industry standards, to conduct the massive scale testing and validation we need to ensure the safety of our systems”.

“We are very proud to partner with Torc Robotics,” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix. “In the past two years, our teams have been working together, sharing knowledge and expertise to create the best-in-class solution to support Torc Robotics’ goals. We look forward to continuing our joint mission to deploy safe Level-4 autonomous trucking at scale”.

The Foretellix V&V platform, Foretify, uses the ASAM OpenSCENARIO 2.0 standard to describe the possible driving scenarios and define verification and validation goals. Using Foretellix’s L4 highway trucking V-Suites – a V&V package of scenarios, test plans, maps, and KPIs, Torc’s development teams can rapidly start their testing programme. Foretify uses these scenarios to generate a multitude of test scenarios in virtual simulation optimised to represent real-world conditions and uncover unknown edge cases.