Case Study: Tata Motors European Technical Centre accelerates autonomous vehicle control algorithm development with MathWorks

Tata Motors European Technical Centre Accelerates Development of Autonomous Vehicle Control Algorithms with Model-Based Design

Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) participated in the UK Autodrive program to develop and demonstrate an autonomous Tata Hexa SUV with a small team, facing the challenge of integrating radar, lidar, GPS/IMU, mono vision, sensor fusion, motion planning, SLAM, and vehicle control while meeting UK testing and logging requirements. To shorten development time and avoid hand-coding controllers, the team used MathWorks Model‑Based Design tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Embedded Coder, Robotics System Toolbox, and Simulink Real‑Time.

Using MathWorks tools, TMETC modeled and simulated motion-planning and vehicle-control algorithms, generated embedded code, and deployed controllers to a Linux in-vehicle PC and Speedgoat hardware; hardware‑in‑the‑loop and on‑road tests in Coventry and Milton Keynes validated a model predictive controller as the best performer. The MathWorks-based workflow accelerated real‑time controller implementation, simplified debugging by replaying logged ROS data in simulation, focused development on high-level design rather than low-level coding, and enabled a successful demonstrable autonomous vehicle in the UK trials.

Tata Motors European Technical Centre

Mark Tucker

Lead Engineer