The problem
Testing autonomous driving systems on public roads is expensive, slow, and dangerous. Edge cases are rare in real driving but critical to validate.
The approach
Built a simulation environment in Unreal Engine with realistic road networks, dynamic traffic, and configurable weather. Virtual sensor models generated synthetic data matching real hardware output.
Outcomes
- Thousands of edge-case scenarios tested per day
- Synthetic sensor data pipeline for perception training
- Reproducible environments for regression validation