OpenMobility Telco Jul 11th, 2023

Attendees

• Robert Hilbrich (DLR)
• Michael Behrisch (DLR)
• Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden)
• Moritz Schweppenhäuser (FhG FOKUS)
• Tobias Lukowitz (7P)
• Robert Protzmann (FhG FOKUS)
• Karl Schrab (FhG FOKUS)
• Jakob Kaths (Vector)
• Josko Balic (AVL)
• Evangelos Mintsis (CERTH/HIT)

Introduction

• Welcome to the openMobility interest group - the transition from the working group has been concluded successfully
• Advantages: less bureaucracy for everyone, less administrative overhead for us, join the group with a mouse click (no more signatures)
• Mailinglists and websites should continue to work for everybody who was already subscribed to the “old” openMobility mailinglist
• Meeting notes will be kept on the website: https://openMobility.eclipse.org/interest-group/minutes/

News from the Projects

Eclipse MOSAIC

• 2023.0 Release contains updates to the perception models and bugfixing
• Using train simulations in SUMO which may lead to new issues being posted on GitHub

Eclipse SUMO

• SUMO v1.18.0 was released a couple of weeks ago
• Focus on integrating python tools in NetEdit (access python tools from within NetEdit)
• Updated emission model (HBEFA 4) - recommended to rerun the simulation scenarios
• Improvements on bidirectional traffic simulation towards shared space simulation
• Bugfixes
• Jakob will be on a sabbatical until February 2024
• Beware: emission values changed the unit (unfortunately without a change in the API version number)
• Maven artifacts jars are still missing for v1.18.0

Eclipse openMCx

• Interest for openMCx is rising
• Request for testing wave energy plants based on openMCx - leads to the need for new features
• Interest in near-real-time fmu-fmu coupling via openMCx
• Extensions to DCP and sensor testing are being worked on

Towards an Updated Vision of openMobility

• Projects in our purview:

  • Eclipse SUMO - https://eclipse.dev/sumo/
  • Eclipse MOSAIC - https://www.eclipse.org/mosaic/
  • Eclipse openMCx - https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.openmcx
  • (Eclipse Adore - https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.adore - a new release based on ROS2 will be available in the Q4/2023 - could move to Eclipse SDV?)

• Potential new projects:

  • TAPAS and TAPAS-SUMO-Coupling - https://github.com/DLR-VF/TAPAS, https://github.com/DLR-TS/TSC
  • MobilityOps (7P) - https://strazoon.com/planning-solutions/

• Collaborate on tools to build digital twins for cities and municipalites to tackle traffic and mobility management?

• Within openMobility the available tools range from traffic demand generation to traffic simulation, ITS applications and visualization for building mobility management strategies

• Political opportunity and market opportunity for open source tools due to the software procurement restrictions of the smart city model projects in Germany

• Cities need evidence based analysis and impact analysis as a prerequisite for acquiring more public funds (…)

• Suggestion: do a survey about available models or tools resulting from EU projects?

• Suggestion: invite stakeholder from cities or municipalities to the openMobility community?

EclipseCon 2023

• EclipseCon 2023 - Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 16 - 19, 2023 - https://www.eclipsecon.org/2023
• Automotive and Mobility track: https://www.eclipsecon.org/session-tracks-eclipsecon-2023/automotive-mobility
• Accepted presentations:
  • https://www.eclipsecon.org/2023/sessions/leveraging-eclipse-sumo-and-eclipse-mosaic-unleashing-power-digital-twins-efficient
  • https://www.eclipsecon.org/2023/sessions/create-detailed-traffic-models-and-simulations-open-source-tools-and-open-data-blink
• Community day October 16th, 2023, 08:30 - 18:30 CEST
  • Draft agenda: https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseCon_2023_Automotive_Community_Day

Any other Business

• Chat client changes: mattermost has been terminated, the SUMO channel moved to the new chat service at Eclipse (https://chat.eclipse.org/#/welcome)
• Do we want to have a chat channel on chat.eclipse.org for openMobility? (only public channels are allowed)
• Complexity of the initiatives at Eclipse are hard to understand
  • Automotive Top Level Project,
  • Eclipse Projects,
  • Eclipse Project Management Council,
  • “Bringing Automotive together”,
  • openMobility IG,
  • Working Groups, …
• Please join the interest group, if you are already part of the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem (https://openmobility.eclipse.org/interest-group/become-a-member/)
• Next meeting: Tuesday, September 26th, 14:30 CEST via Zoom