Press Release
November 22, 2021
Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Cabinet OfficeOpen call for participants to the operational test of DIVP®, the safety evaluation
environment platform in virtual space for automated driving- SIP-Automated Driving for Universal Services SIP-adus is working on the creation of DIVP®, Driving Intelligence Validation
Platform, which is a safety assurance platform in virtual space developed as asimulation model highly consistent with real phenomena, enabling to implement
safety evaluation in various traffic environment, in order to realize safe andsmooth automated driving.
We now open a new call for participants, who will experience the DIVP®'ssimulation model of Tokyo Waterfront City area, which is in the area of the Field
Operational Tests in Tokyo waterfront area, and give feedback related to its
usability, what to be improved, and others.
1. SIP-adus initiatives for today
The Second Phase of Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion
Program Automated Driving for Universal Services (hereinafter referred to as"SIP-adus") aspires to realize a society with higher quality of life for everyone,by making contributions to solving social issues such as reducing traffic
accidents and congestions, ensuring mobility for vulnerable road users, andmitigating the driver shortage and reducing the costs of logistics and mobility
services. This is the reason why the program promotes researches anddevelopments for common tasks (cooperative areas) that industry, academia
and government should jointly work on.
To ensure safety and reliability is the most important task for social
implementation and dissemination of automated driving, for which there is anurgent need to establish safety evaluation methods for automated vehicles.
In SIP-adus, development of a simulation model, which is highly consistent
with actual phenomenon and which can substitute for an experimentalevaluation in the real environment, has been started for safety evaluation. The
construction of the safety evaluation environment platform in virtual space, orDIVP®, is being moved forward, where evaluation can be done under various
conditions based on this model.

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SIP-adus has started creating a database, modeling Tokyo waterfront area
field operational test courses, mainly of Tokyo waterfront city area.
We are looking for participants who make trial use of the latest version of theTokyo waterfront city area simulation in DIVP®, and check the performance andthe consistency with actual phenomena, then give feedback of it for further
improvement and development of the technology.
For more details on requirements for application, participation and others,
please refer to the guidelines announced by NEDO managing the project.
3. Application Requirements(1) The test to be implemented:
From Thursday, January 20, 2022 to Thursday, April 28, 2022
(2) About the operational test
Expecting to apply the simulation in practical use, the test will be carriedout with a series of “driving environment-electromagnetic wave propagationssensors” models of DIVP®, in an environment where requirements from eachparticipant are incorporated. The participants are required to give suggestions
linked to performance and reproducibility, as well as feedbacks related tousability, connectivity and other features which will contribute to further
improvement and development of the system, through this test experience.
(3) Who can apply
Car makers, Suppliers of parts, systems, or tools, Research group orinstitute, as well as Certification bodies, which are working on research anddevelopment of automated driving technology in Japan or overseas
Note: the number of participants will be 4 or 5 maximum because ofresource availability before and during the operational test(4) Application available:
From Monday November 22, 2021 to Wednesday December 15, 2021
(5) NEDO is responsible for this open call. Please visit the website below for
application form and detailed information.
https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/news/ZZCD_100018.html

2Contact information:
About SIP-adus
Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Cabinet
Office, Government of Japan
Tel:81+3-6257-1334
About your application
Robot and Artificial Intelligence Technology Department, NEDO: New
Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
Tel:81+44-520-5241
About Council for Science, Technology and Innovation:
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/index.html
About SIP-adus:
https://www.sip-adus.go.jp/

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