A major advancement in the partnership between Nvidia and Ansys was announced at CES 2024. Ansys' AVxcelerate sensors will now be integrated into Nvidia's Drive Sim simulator, based on the Omniverse platform dedicated to industrial digitization applications. Ansys, a company specializing in digital simulation solutions applied to various fields such as structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, thermal calculation, and electromagnetic analysis, will thus be able to use the simulation results from its sensors to validate and train advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for autonomous vehicles.

According to Ansys, integrating AVxcelerate sensors with Nvidia's Drive Sim platform will enhance high-definition, scalable 3D environments. Ansys' precise physical solvers for camera, lidar, and radar sensors will be utilized to generate scenarios in Drive Sim. This integration will provide users of Drive Sim with AVxcelerate Sensors licenses the opportunity to develop, train, test, and validate audiovisual perception systems, while reducing time and costs.

Furthermore, Nvidia emphasizes that integrating AVxcelerate sensor simulation results with Drive Sim provides greater flexibility for developers to work on their autonomous vehicle technology. Nvidia's Omniverse platform allows users to develop 3D workloads based on OpenUSD, an open-source framework developed by Pixar Animation Studios. This flexibility and modularity offered by OpenUSD enable developers to create scalable simulations and serve as a data factory for training artificial intelligence models, according to Ansys.