Applied’s year in review: CarSim acquisition, new customers, and over 500 new features

Applied’s year in review

Welcome to the December edition of Applied Intuition’s newsletter. This month, we’d like to recap the year and share our reflections with you.

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Applied Intuition acquires CarSim

In March 2022, Applied Intuition acquired Mechanical Simulation Corporation, a provider of vehicle dynamics simulation software most commonly known for its flagship product, CarSim. Mechanical Simulation has been a technology leader in vehicle dynamics simulation software for over 25 years. Its products—CarSim, TruckSim, BikeSim, and SuspensionSim—provide the most accurate and realistic predictions of real-world vehicle behavior. Thanks to the acquisition, Applied and Mechanical Simulation’s customers benefit from improved product collaboration and more rapid feature growth.

Over 500 new features

In August, our team was excited to launch our newest product. Synthetic Datasets provide high-fidelity camera, lidar, radar, and other sensor data for machine learning (ML). We also delivered over 500 new features and product improvements across our suite of simulation, validation, and data management products. This has enabled our customers to solve use cases such as:

• Perception and localization
• Planning and controls
• Log visualization and triage
• Verification and validation
• Large-scale testing
• Vehicle dynamics

Two handbooks

In 2022, we introduced two new handbooks to our customers. Our verification and validation (V&V) handbook provides autonomy programs with best practices for setting up their V&V processes. Our log management handbook discusses the technical building blocks, ideal workflows, and cost management strategies of a comprehensive log data management process.

Customers across industries

We were proud to welcome a range of new customers to the Applied Development Platform this year. Our customers represent a variety of industries across different regions of the world. Read some of their stories below:

• Nissan improves safety of ADAS technology for passenger vehicles
• Caterpillar tests autonomous construction and mining equipment
• RideFlux expands its robotaxi services and increases ODD coverage by 5x
• Ouster speeds up deployment of lidar-based perception systems
• Supernal simulates safe autonomous advanced air mobility
• driveblocks builds a modular software toolbox for AVs
• Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory develops AV merge planning algorithms

Government work

In addition to our commercial customers, 2022 was a year of continued work in government and defense. Applied secured major contract wins, hosted an autonomy and national security conference, held high-level engagements with senior government officials, and rapidly expanded the size of its government team. Discover a few highlights below:?

• Nexus 22: Major national security and autonomy event
• Can the Army’s robotics programs build AI the Silicon Valley way?
• Hosting a Congressional delegation
• Hosting the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering
• Podcast: How to test, verify, and validate AV technology

Events around the globe

Applied was thrilled to participate in events across North America, Europe, and Asia this year. Discover our most interesting talks and discussions from ADAS & AV Technology Expo, Tech.AD Europe, and other events we attended this year:

• Training with synthetic lidar data to improve perception model performance
• Best practices for building safe autonomous systems
• Methods for map validation
• Verification and validation of autonomous systems
• Standards and performance metrics for on-road AVs

Upcoming conferences & events

Applied will be at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, NV, from January 5 - 8. Please contact us if you’d like to meet with our team!

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