TISA presents at the 19th Open Auto Drive Forum Event in Chicago

May 18, 2023

On 9 May, the TISA team attended the 19th Open Auto Drive Forum Event held at HERE in Chicago, USA. TISA joined the meeting with other OADF member organizations that included ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS, SIP-adus, as well as TN-ITS. Executive Director Matthias Unbehaun and TISA member Andras Csepinszky updated participants about the latest standards updates in the field of automated driving.

The event was opened by Jeff Raimo, Senior Director, Global Head of Content Product Planning at HERE and introduced UniMap, HERE’s mapping technology that creates fresher and more accurate maps. Andras Csepinszky of NNG, spokesperson for OADF and co-chair of SENSORIS, introduced OADF for those attending for the first time.

By popular demand, NDS technical coordinator Fabian Klebert was invited to the meeting to explain the role of serialization in the various standards and why the NDS chose zserio rather than Protobuf, which is used in many other standards. In his presentation, he compared the two approaches in detail in terms of features, code quality, data size, and encoding/decoding speed.

The second invited talk was given by Takeshi Doihara, ISO/TC204/WG3 Expert and ISO/TC211/JWG11 Co-Convenor for the Geographic Data Files (GDF) standard. He first explained the scope of ISO/TC204 (Intelligent Transportation Systems) and TC211 (Geographic Information/Geomatics) and the importance of these standards for GDF development. Another focus of his presentation was the difference between GDF5.1-1 (GDF 5.0) and GDF 5.1-2 and the feature representation in GDF5.1. Furthermore, he reported on the harmonization between GDF and ISO 191xx and the planned revisions of GDF.

The OADF member organisations and ASAM  were then given the opportunity to report on their recent activities:

  • Matthias Unbehaun, TISA managing director, provided information on TPEG2 and the requirements and ongoing discussions of the follow-up version related to automated driving.
  • András Csepinszky, co-chair of SENSORIS and of NNG, reported on the latest SENSORIS version 1.6 and the planning for SENSORIS 2.0.
  • Jean-Charles Pandazis, ADASIS Coordinator and from ERTICO, reported that ADASIS v3 – 3.0.0. has just been released for review. It includes new profiles for speed limits and a request-and-response mechanism.
  • Benjamin Engel, CTO at ASAM, gave an overview of the OpenX standards, with particular focus on the Offroad Concept Project, the ASAM Text Specification, and the ASAM OpenODD.
  • Martin Schleicher, NDS chair and Elektrobit representative to NDS, gave an overview of recent advances in NDS.Live and explained how NDS.Live can now be used to distribute map data in various scenarios.
  • Satoru Nakajo, SIP-adus founding member from the University of Tokyo, reported on the results of the SIP-adus program in Japan, which ended in March 2023, and on planned follow-up activities.
  • Christian Kleine, TN-ITS President and from HERE, introduced TN-ITS and reported on progress towards alignment with DATEXX II and TN-ITS.

At the end of the event, Steffen Kuhn from Elektrobit organized a workshop on reliable maps for automated driving for the on-site participants. His teaser presentation on this topic sparked a lively discussion about Reliable Map Attributes (RMAs) and RMA deviation types. TISA looks forward to celebrating OADF’s 20th meeting at the next event.