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ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground Smart City

Smart city 3D environment

Since R2024b

Description

The ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground Smart City scene is a 3D environment of a smart city with these five urban testing environments:

  • Low-speed parking zone with a logistics yard for commercial vehicles

  • Downtown area

  • High-speed urban multi-lane area

  • Special T-intersections zone

  • Hill section with 10% and 20% gradients

The largest city block size is 25 by 60 meters, and the complete smart city area is 150,000 square meters. Lanes range from 2.75 to 3.5 meters wide at lengths of 25 to 50 meters. This scene is intended for simulation of numerous traffic, technical (NCAP/V2X), and dynamic test scenarios reaching a top speed of 70 km/h.

Setup

To simulate a driving algorithm in this scene:

  1. To install the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground Smart City scene, run this command.

    sim3d.utils.installUnrealEngineScene('ZalaZONE Smart City')

  2. To confirm your scene selection, click Next.

  3. To install the scene, click Install. MATLAB® shuts down, and a window displays the download progress. Once the download is complete, MATLAB restarts.

  4. In Simulink®, add a Simulation 3D Scene Configuration block to your Simulink model.

  5. In this block, set the Scene source parameter to Default Scenes.

  6. Set the Scene name parameter to ZalaZONE Smart City.

Layout

OverallActive Area

Top-down view of ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground environment with the Smart City active area highlighted.

Close-up of the Smart City active area.

Objects

Tips

  • If you have the Automated Driving Toolbox™ Interface for Unreal Engine® Projects support package, then you can modify this scene. Enable the MathWorksAutomotiveContent plugin to use the scene in Unreal Engine projects. The scene name in the plugin is ZalaZONESmartCity.

    For more details on customizing scenes, see Customize Unreal Engine Scenes for Automated Driving.

References

[1] Szalay, Zsolt. "Critical Scenario Identification Concept: The Role of the Scenario-in-the-Loop Approach in Future Automotive Testing." IEEE Access 11 (July 2023): 82464–76. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3298875.

[2] Duleba, Szabolcs, Tamás Tettamanti, Ádám Nyerges, and Zsolt Szalay. “Ranking the Key Areas for Autonomous Proving Ground Development Using Pareto Analytic Hierarchy Process." IEEE Access 9 (March 2021): 51214–30. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3064448.

[3] Somogyi, Árpád, Tamás Tettamanti, Pál Varga, Zsolt Szalay, Dániel Baranyai, and Tamás Lovas. "Digital Map Generation Workflow Demonstrated on ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground Elements." NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Miami, FL, May 8-12, 2023: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154403.

[4] Gangel, Kálmán, Zoltán Hamar, András Háry, Áron Horváth, Gábor Jandó, Balázs Könyves, Dániel Panker et al. "Modelling the ZalaZONE Proving Ground: A Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Automotive Simulators PreScan, IPG CarMaker, and VTD Vires." Acta Technica Jaurinensis 14, no. 4 (2021): 488–50.. https://doi.org/10.14513/actatechjaur.00606.

Version History

Introduced in R2024b

See Also