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• Published in: 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) pp. 1548 - 1553
• Main Authors: Jarofka, Maximilian, Sieberg, Philipp M., Hurten, Christian, Benedens, Tim, Peters, Ricarda, Kracht, Frederic E., Schramm, Dieter
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 08-10-2022
• Subjects: Adaptation models; Games; Seaports; Soft sensors; Solid modeling; Stereo image processing; Three-dimensional displays
• DOI: 10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9922371

This paper describes the integration of publicly available geoinformation into a simulation environment. With-in the research project 'AutoBin', the autonomous control of an inland vessel is to be tested in a simulated environment and the developed algorithms are to be validated. This requires a photorealistic simulation within a modern game engine. In this paper, the different sources of the used geodata are presented. Furthermore, the necessary adaptations of the data for the desired integration into the simulation are shown. At the end of the integration of the different data sources, an environment model of the entire test field in the project 'AutoBin'- a part of the Dortmund-Ems-Canal from the lock Waltrop to the port of Dortmund - is created. The last section of this paper describes the necessary adaptations to integrate the environment model into the simulation infrastructure of the research and control center for autonomous inland vessels - 'VeLABi'.