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The Modelling World conference took place on June 16th, 2011 in London's famous Chelsea Football Club. The conference is mainly focused on infrastructure planning and traffic modelling with associated simulation tasks. OpenDRIVE® made its debut there in the new section automotive simulation since the inter-connection between vehicles, advanced driver assistances systems and the road infrastructure is getting ever closer. A presentation about the principles of OpenDRIVE® was given by Marius Dupuis of VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH. You may download the presentation here
Date
The 7th OpenDRIVE® user meeting was held on February 1st, 2011, during the
Imagina 2011 conference and exhibition in Monaco - a great subject
met a great location!
Participants
The meeting was open to all visitors of Imagina 2011.
Minutes of Meeting etc.
The Minutes of Meeting are available here.
For the framework presentation guiding through the meeting, click here.
Paper
A dedicated OpenDRIVE® paper was presented in the poster session at
DSC 2010 in Paris on September 9-10, 2010. The various
subjects of the paper included an information update about OpenDRIVE's status as well as the description of a selected use case which
involved the exchange of driving databases that had taken place between two automotive OEMs.
For the DSC proceedings including the full paper, please check the DSC website. The poster shown at the conference
can be downloaded here.
Users
Due to OpenDRIVE's liberal usage and download rules, it's quite hard to track who the actual users are.
However, the presentations at the DSC gave a good insight into OpenDRIVE's continuously growing user base
and the ever more sophisticated applications. It could also be proven that requirements arising from actual use cases have meanwhile
made it back as features into the standard.
A big THANK YOU to everybody who has clearly stated at this key conference that OpenDRIVE is his format of choice!
Every other user who feels encouraged to make a clear commitment to OpenDRIVE may do so by getting listed free of charge and
without further obligations in our users section.
Rough Waters
As we found out shortly after DSC, a newsletter had been distributed during the conference by a 3rd party (so-called RoadXML,tm) containing allegations that OpenDRIVE was missing certain features which are crucial for the representation of real road networks (namely: clothoids and curvilinear co-ordinates). As soon as we got hold of this information, the OpenDRIVE core team protested and easily proved that the allegations were completely wrong. The "missing" features had been part of OpenDRIVE since its start in 2006. After quite some communication going back and forth, we have now opted for not taking further legal action since the publishers of the wrong statements have acknowledged their mistakes, stopped the distribution of their current newsletter and have agreed to publish an erratum in their upcoming newsletter.
At the AutoTest Conference in Stuttgart, Germany (Oct. 27-28, 2010), papers will be presented by established users of OpenDRIVE®. At least one paper will provide explicit reference to OpenDRIVE®. Further information will be available after the conference...
Do you know about other recent or upcoming events involving applications of OpenDRIVE®? If so, please drop us a line and we will be happy to list the event and/or your report here on our website.
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