Technical professional organisation IEEE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the American Center for Mobility (ACM) to advance the development and deployment of technical standards for autonomous vehicles.

Under the agreement, ACM and the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC) will work together to identify the requirements for standards, validation and conformance testing requirements.

Both entities also agreed to promote the importance of standards, interoperability and validation and testing compliance of the autonomous vehicles.

American Center for Mobility president and CEO John Maddox said: “Across wireless, vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, 5G, and a host of other areas, IEEE is a global leader in standards development and expertise for connected and automated vehicles and related technologies and infrastructure.

“IEEE is a global leader in standards development and expertise for connected and automated vehicles and related technologies and infrastructure.”

“This makes the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community an ideal partner for the American Center for Mobility in our work to serve the broad needs of industry and government in testing vehicles, roads, infrastructure and communication systems, as well as national standards for mobility technologies before vehicles and other products are deployed.”

ACM is a dedicated national facility to carry out testing and validation of connected vehicles, automated vehicles and other mobility technologies.

The testing, validation and self-certification processes are carried out at the 500-acre Willow Run site in south-east Michigan, the US.

IEEE TEC chair Yaobin Chen said: “This agreement connects us formally with a world-class testing and validation environment in the American Center for Mobility, through which technologies and systems can be continually improved.”