▲ Joint cooperation business agreement ceremony for the development of a virtual verification platform. (Photo courtesy: Hyundai Autoever)


Providing a digital twin integrated simulation environment
Ensuring software development productivity and future vehicle stability

Hyundai Autoever plans to fully develop a virtual verification platform that can shorten development and verify vehicle stability in the future automobile market defined by software.

Hyundai Autoever announced on the 30th that it has formed an alliance with domestic and foreign software companies to develop a vehicle virtual verification platform.

The virtual verification platform is a virtual verification environment and verification tool that can proactively verify SW logic and vehicle functions by implementing vehicle SW platforms, systems such as sensors and actuators, and vehicle dynamics models as digital twins.

The need for a virtual verification platform has emerged in line with the trends in autonomous driving, connectivity, and electrification.

According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), a modern car contains about 100 million lines of code, four times more than a fighter jet, and that number is projected to increase to 300 million lines by 2030.

The vehicle software verification market is worth about KRW 12 trillion as of 2020, accounting for about 29% of the total vehicle software market, and is expected to grow to about KRW 30 trillion by 2030.

The importance of software is growing day by day, to the point where it can be called a software-defined vehicle. As the proportion of software in vehicles increases significantly, the complexity and connectivity of software increase, and software stability verification becomes more important.

The virtual verification platform developed by Hyundai Autoever virtualizes in-vehicle controllers, systems, and vehicles, and also builds a virtual driving environment to enable integrated simulation of vehicles.

If a virtual verification platform is applied to vehicle software development, software can be developed and verified in advance before the actual vehicle or controller is manufactured.

This will shorten the period required to develop vehicle software and enable the development of vehicles with higher stability.

Hyundai Autoever is expanding its development ecosystem by signing MOUs with software companies to successfully develop a virtual verification platform.

Hyundai Autoever announced on the 26th that it signed an MOU for business cooperation with four companies: dSPACE Korea, IPG Automotive Korea, IVH (Industrial Vehicle Research Institute), and SureSoft Technologies.

The four companies plan to cooperate in business and joint research to develop a virtual verification platform.

Hyundai Autoever and four companies will conduct technology verification of the virtual verification platform in 2022 and develop it with the goal of starting a pilot service by the end of next year.

With this MOU, Hyundai Autoever will form a 'Virtual Verification Alliance' with several companies that have technological competitiveness in each element of the virtual verification field, and it is expected that each company will be able to take the lead in the software verification field, while also enhancing its own technologies and creating new business opportunities.

A Hyundai Autoever representative said, “In order to ensure the stability of software as the vehicle’s controller integration and connectivity functions expand, “Verification is becoming more and more important,” he said. “We will collaborate with industry-leading experts to develop a virtual verification platform to contribute to creating safer and more comfortable future cars.”