New AVP test environment for autonomous driving use cases

A demonstration exhibition was held as part of the 5GAA Member Symposium event in Malaga, Spain on 20 October.

Valet parking is a service in which a professional parking attendant parks drivers’ cars at large-scale parking facilities and commercial facilities, mainly in Europe and the United
States.

AVP enables this parking to be done automatically, without any driver in the vehicle. AVP Technical Report Version 1.0 was released by 5GAA in June 2022, and a wireless communication (Type-2) operation scheme linked with parking garage infrastructure and users’ smartphones was proposed.

AVP is being
developed as an autonomous driving use case, which can be deployed in the short term. AVP Type-1 autonomous driving vehicles require expensive high-performance computing and sensing, while AVP Type-2 communication-cooperative vehicles do not require such installations, reducing vehicle costs and making implementation easier.

Since AVP Type-2
requires highly reliable end-to-end communications, a test system needs to evaluate QoS management and impairment effects in the IP layer. The wireless connectivity environment also needs to be evaluated.

The test solution set up a digital twin environment incorporating both virtual and real devices. This allows the
system tests and certification required to improve the reliability of AVP Type-2 to be started before the actual devices are available.

Automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and mobile network operators have shown great interest in the demonstration, and the companies will continue to develop this simulation environment and contribute to the realisation of AVP.