The automotive industry is undergoing massive transformation with emerging automated, connected, and electric automotive technologies enabling new mobility services in a shared economy. In turn, these innovations are altering the way automakers, their partners, and customers create value and benefit from vehicles and transportation.
The Eclipse Automotive Top-Level Project provides a space for open source projects to explore ideas and technologies addressing challenges in the automotive, mobility and transportation domain. It is the common goal of this project to provide tools and composable building blocks to empower the development of solutions for the mobility of the future.
The Eclipse Foundation delivers an open, vendor-neutral governance framework, and IP cleansing processes for OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers and players in the automotive ecosystem like Audi AG, BMW Group, Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler AG, and Siemens AG, who wish to collaborate on core capabilities below the value line to solve their technology needs. In doing so, they free up scarce organizational resources to accelerate product development that enables intellectual property sharing without the threat of antitrust and regulatory challenges, increased focus on delivering differentiating features faster, and pooling of engineering resources.
Here are the current Eclipse Working Groups dealing with Automotive stuff:
Test systems in the automotive industry are expensive to implement and operate. In addition, verification procedures during automotive product development generate an ever-increasing volume and diversity of test data. The openMDM Working Group drives the Eclipse MDM|BL project, an open source, vendor-independent, and server-based application for the management of ASAM ODS compliant measurement data. It offers generally required functionalities, such as data storage, full-text search, data import/export and selection of test data.
Learn more @ https://www.openmdm.org
The openMobility Working Group drives the evolution and broad adoption of mobility modeling and simulation technologies. It is based on Eclipse Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO), a framework that supports the detailed simulation of the movement of vehicles, people, as well as their communication patterns. openMobility’s efforts will be critical in testing driver assistance systems, predicting and optimizing traffic as well as evaluating new business models, such as Mobility-as-a-Service.
Learn more @ https://openmobility.eclipse.org
The need for virtual simulation of advanced driver assistance systems, partially automated driving functions, and assessment of safety effects in traffic has given rise to the creation of the openPASS Working Group. openPASS specifies and builds the open source SIM@openPASS platform containing various methods and tools for the prospective evaluation of advanced driver assistance systems with respect to traffic safety.
Learn more @ https://openpass.eclipse.org
The OpenADx Working Group is centered around the autonomous driving toolchain and aims to bring transparency and better integration capabilities into the autonomous driving tool space. This industry-wide initiative is of special interest for OEMs, Tier 1s, and tool and technology vendors. openADx was launched by Bosch and Microsoft and now comprises contributors from the industrial, research, and start-up worlds.
Learn more @ https://openadx.eclipse.org/
To join an existing Eclipse Foundation Automotive Working Group, or find out how to create a new Eclipse Working Group, please contact the Membership Coordination Team at membership@eclipse.org.