Canadian automotive sensor specialist LeddarTech and Israeli AI-driven simulation software developer Cognata have integrated their two platforms. Cognata’s technology is used for simulation of self-driving and ADAS technologies. LeddarTech’s LeddarVision platform provides automotive sensor fusion and perception capabilities.

The integration improves realism and accuracy in simulation and testing new autonomous vehicle and ADAS technologies.

The two companies’ plans include addressing the $20 billion market for agricultural autonomous vehicles.

According to the two companies, the combined solution delivers a new level of realism in training and validating ADAS and AV performance, along with highly accurate sensor simulation, bringing novel AI-powered traffic agents, based on real-world behaviour, and highly realistic virtual worlds together on a cloud-based platform.

Highly realistic, large-scale simulation is a time-to-market accelerator for AV and ADAS developers, as they continue to leverage its capabilities in more phases of development to provide better product quality and safety and reduce testing time and costs.

The combined technology and expertise of the companies offer end users improved and robust testing and validation environment and perception solution, elevating the user experience with nearly real scenes.

VayaVision, a LeddarTech company based in Israel, offers an environmental perception solution. LeddarVision provides vehicles with real-time information on the driving environment for safer and reliable autonomous driving. The software solution encompasses raw data fusion with up-sampling, AI, and computer vision and has the inherent redundancy required for functional safety.

LeddarTech, which acquired VayaVision in 2020, provides level 1-5 environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. 

The Cognata platform employs artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision to create a realistic automotive simulation environment where virtual cars travel virtual roads in virtual cities – all remarkably accurate to real-world conditions, including weather conditions and an AI-based traffic model.

“LeddarTech and Cognata share the vision of using large-scale, cloud-based simulation to thoroughly and safely train and test self-driving cars under endless challenging situations,” said Ronny Cohen, Sr. Director, Israel Operations & Engineering at LeddarTech. “This is a joining of the market’s leading solutions to a unique best-of-breed offering that will accelerate the safe deployment of ADAS and AV technology.”

“Cognata and LeddarTech are joining forces to create a robust solution that will efficiently and safely accelerate autonomous vehicles market entry,” said Cognata CEO Danny Atsmon. “Highly accurate and scalable simulation technology is essential to validate ADAS systems and autonomous vehicles within nearly infinite combinations of real-world scenarios.”