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25th Driving Simulation  eXtended Reality Conference & Exhibition

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September 16-18, 2026
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Antibes, France
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Preliminary Program

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Wednesday, September 16th
Thursday, September 17th
Friday, September 18th
Posters
Wednesday, September 16th
13:00

REGISTRATION

Welcome desk – 2nd floor

WELCOME DRINK

Espace Méditerranée – 3rd floor

14:00

Antipolis Auditorium

SPECIAL SESSION

Standards for driving and massive simulation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles in vehicle engineering design and regulation

Moderated by: Marius DUPUIS (ASAM, Germany)

 

Standards to harmonise the scenario-based ADS Safety demonstration

ARNOUX Emmanuel (Renault, France)

Virtual Validation Toolchains and the role of standards

ROHRBECK Antje (Synopsys, Germany)

ASAM OpenX as the Backbone for Credible Perception Sensor Simulation

ROSENBERGER Philipp (Persival , Germany)

From Code to Confidence: Practical Quality Standards for Massive Simulation Environments.

KHAN Basit (AAI Innovations, Germany)

The role of standards in scenario-based testing

PEIRSMAN Yves (Deontic, Belgium)

15:45

BREAK

Espace Méditerranée – 3rd floor

16:00

Antipolis Auditorium

ROUND TABLE

The future of XR helmets vs. multi-view CAVEs in driving simulation

Moderated by : Jean-Rémy Chardonnet (Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France)

Human perception of virtual object’s scale on a large immersive display

RABELLINO Frederic (Volvo, France)

16:45

Antipolis Auditorium

SPECIAL SESSION

Digital twin XR driver station for driving simulators

Moderated by : Andras Kemeny (Driving Simulation Association, France)

Usability of a mixed reality head mounted display in a static driving simulator

MORGAND, Eva; COLOMBET, Florent; MIGNOTTE, Nicolas; POSSELT, Javier (Renault, France)

Technical evaluation of vehicle interior lighting using Mixed Reality in driving simulation

GOMMEL Henrik (GOTECH, Germany)

17:30CLOSING
Thursday, September 17th
08:00

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

Welcome desk – 2nd floor

08:40

Antipolis Auditorium

CONFERENCE OPENING

Andras Kemeny, Conference Chair
(President, Driving Simulation Association
Member of the Board of Directors, ASAM)

“XR based Driving Simulation for Vehicle Engineering Design, Testing and Regulation“

09:00

Antipolis Auditorium

KEYNOTE

09:25

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Perception & Human Factors

Fitzgerald Room

PRODUCT SOLUTION SESSION

DiL Simulation

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Advanced Road Feedback in Driving Simulators: The Role of Physical Tire Models

BÖHLE, Maximilian (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Rieff, Benjamin

From On-Road Testing to Ride Replay: Validation of Simulator-Based Ride Comfort Assessment using a Specialized Driving Simulator

Jeindl, Stefan (Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik, Graz, Austria); Hofmaninger, Philipp; Kovacevic, Paul; Nolan, Leo; Farmer, Gavin; Magosi, Zoltan Ferenc; Koglbauer, Ioana Victoria; Eichberger, Arno

09:50

Occupant behaviour, cognition, and Human-Machine Interaction in Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle driving simulator

OLAYAN, Ali (Expleo Group, France); Chardonnet, Jean-Rémy; Sandoz, Baptiste

Full-Spectrum Driver-in-the-Loop Simulation for Multi-Attribute Vehicle Development: HexaRev and HyperDoc

HAUSNER, Nadia (VI-grade, Germany)

10:15

Effects of Cognitive Load, Age and Gender on Driver Control Parameters (Short)

Nalda-Tárrega, Víctor (Instituto Biomecánica Valencia, Spain); Belda-Lois, Juan-Manuel; Mateo-Martínez, Begoña

An ISO Initiative Towards Standardizing Driving Simulators (Short)

Himmels, Chantal (BMW AG, Germany); Chida, Tomoya; Fischer, Martin; Fujimoto, Masaki; Kuwabara, Kazuki; Kyogoku, Hitoshi; Lindner, Johannes; Muramatsu, Hideyuki; Ruß, Fabian; Marcus, Schmitz; Martin, Sevenich; Atsushi, Tsubouchi; Stefan, Vorderobermeier

10:30

BREAK

Gould Exhibition Space – 2nd floor

11:00

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Motion Cueing & Control & AI

Fitzgerald Room

PRODUCT SOLUTION SESSION

ADAS

A Model-Predictive Control Algorithm for Matched Lateral/Yaw Motion

KOLFF, Maurice (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); POOL, Daan M.; RICCIARDI, Vincenzo; HEIDERICH, Martin; ZANTNER, Frank; SHYROKAU, Barys

Scenario-Based Approach in System Engineering: Toward an Assessment of Coverage 

BOHN, Christophe (IRT SystemX, France); REVERT, Erwan; ADJED, Faouzi

11:25 

Learning-Based Acceleration Prediction for Real-Time Model Predictive Motion Cueing

PAPE, Keno (Paderborn University, Germany); MALENA, KEVIN; TIMMERMANN, JULIA; TRÄCHTLER, ANSGAR

ASAM QSQ: Quantifying Simulation Quality for Credible Virtual Validation

Shah, Yash (ASAM e.V, Germany); SÁNCHEZ LÁZARO, Diego

11:50

Comparison of Cost Functions for Automatic Motion Cueing Algorithm Parametrisation (Short)

BROWN, Craig (BrownSim Ltd, London, UK); Schlueter, Marco; Holzapfel, Christian

From Concept to Validation: Mastering Scene and Scenario Fidelity with the RoadRunner Product Family (Short)

HAEMMERLE, Simone (MathWorks, Germany); HAFEMANN, Philipp

12:05

Effects of motion cueing and adaptive procedure on acceleration JND estimation (Short)

Lilljebjörn, Erik Gustaf (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden); Kharrazi, Sogol; Åslund, Jan

From Map Data to Simulation: An Automated Pipeline for 3D Scene Map and OpenDRIVE Generation for ADAS and AV Validation (Short)

KUSSMAUL, Stephan (TrianGraphics GmbH, Germany); NIERENZ, Mirco

 
12:20

Acceptance of Adaptive Cruise Control on a Dynamic Driving Simulator: the Role of Tilt Coordination (Short)

Carrera, Xabier; Cattaneo, Paolo; Comolli, Francesco; Gobbi, Massimiliano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Mastinu, Giampiero; Torm, Roger

Developing ADAS with High-Fidelity Vehicle Models and Integrated Controllers (Short)

SCHESKE, Alyssa (Applied Intuition, Germany); Keles, Ahmet; Kaimal, Bharath

 
12:35

LUNCH

Gould Exhibition Space – 2nd floor

14:00


Antipolis Auditorium

INDUSTRIAL KEYNOTES

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Will Snyder (Commercial Manager at Dynisma, United Kingdom)

“The Role of High Frequency Content in Driving Simulators”

15:00

Antipolis Auditorium

INDUSTRIAL PITCHES

Where Virtual Meets Reality – The Next Generation of Driving Simulators
Stefan Vorderobermeier, Business Development Manager, Ansible Motion (United Kingdom)

 

Beyond Zero: Welcome to the Smart Era
Gabriele Ferrarotti, Head of Marketing – Simulation, VI-grade / HBK (Italy)

 

Race to Road: Leveraging F1-Grade Motion Correlation for Automotive Innovation
Will Snyder, Commercial Manager, Dynisma (United Kingdom)
 

IPG Automotive Industrial Pitch
Farouk El Farji, Account Manager, IPG Automotive (France)

 

 

 

 

16:00

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Perception & Human Factors II

Fitzgerald Room

PRODUCT SOLUTION SESSION

HiL DiL Simulation design

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In-car occupant state monitoring using RGB- and IR-images – carsickness as an example

BOS, Jelte E. (TNO, Netherlands); LOUVENBERG, Susanne; SOUMAN, Jan L.

Extending a Modular Simulation Framework to Support Immersive Virtual Reality for Human-in-the-Loop Driving Studies

BAKER, Peter (University of Warwick, United Kingdom); MITCHELL, Joseph; CHODOWIEC, Emil; ZHANG, Xizhe; KHASTGIR, Siddartha; JENNINGS, Paul

16:25 

How We Roll: Validating Cycling Simulation Against Real-Life Riding

WEIDEL, My (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden); Ochel, Lennart; Sliacan, Jakub; Kircher, Katja

Development Environment for the Validation of Steer-by-Wire Systems

Ahlert, Alexander; zur Heiden, Martin; Schmidt, Philipp; Kemper, Henning; KARASIEWICZ, Thomas (IPG Automotive France SARL, France)

16:50

Simulation-Based Human-in-the-Loop Assessment of Shifting Comfort in Two Speed Electric Vehicles

FAHMY, Omar (Institute for Mechatronical Systems, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany); Kaskaya, Safa; Rinderknecht, Stephan

A Distributed Driving Simulation Framework utilizing Data Distribution Service 

Bauer, Christian (University of Iowa, United States of America); Schwarz, Chris

 
17:15

Human Vision Driven Standard for Automotive Lit Surfaces (Short)

Loya Garnica, Victor (Ansys (part of Synopsys), United States of America)

A HiL‑Driven Brake Pedal Feedback Architecture for Driver‑in‑the‑Loop Simulation (Short)

Groß, Raphael (Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Tworek, Anton; Riegert, Bernhard; Pfeffer, Peter E.

 
17:30CLOSING
20:00COCKTAIL PARTY
Friday, September 18th
08:00

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

Welcome desk – 2nd floor

09:05

Antipolis Auditorium

KEYNOTE

 
09:35

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Virtual Reality for Driving Simulation

Fitzgerald Room

PRODUCT SOLUTION SESSION

Sensors in driving simulation

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Assessing the Sensitivity of a VR Driving Simulator to Single-Day Highway Work Zones

PRETTO, Paolo (Virtual Vehicle Research, Austria); PRIOR, Manuela; JUKIC, Mateo; GSELLMANN, Inge; MUIK, Thorsten; ROSENBERGER, Manfred; HAGER, Christina; MALETZKY, Alexander

Active Infrared with SE-RAY-IR – SCANeR Studio

FAUCHER, Florian (OKTAL-SE, France); BOUDET, Antoine; NGUYEN, Thomas

10:00

Expectation-Driven Differences in Pedestrian Gap Acceptance toward Automated Vehicles (Short)

BERGEN, Melina (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Temme, Gerald; Einhäuser-Treyer, Wolfgang; Fischer, Martin

A Unified Phenomenological Sensor Model for Real-Time Raw Data Generation in Autonomous Driving Simulation (Short)

YOUSIF, Ahmed (Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Germany); ELSOBKY, Mohamed

10:15

Metaverse: A Validation Approach for Bridging the Gap between Simulation, Scaled Field Tests and Field Tests (Short)

KLING, Raphael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); WILD, Manuel; WIESCHOLLEK, Marvin; CICHON, Martin

Radar sensor simulation validation (Short)

FAUCHER, Florian (OKTAL-SE, France); SERVEL, Alain

10:30

BREAK

Gould Exhibition Space – 2nd floor

11:00

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Motion Cueing & Control & AI

Fitzgerald Room

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Scenario Modeling and Authoring Tools

Physics-Informed Neural Network-based Motion Cueing Algorithm

JACUMET, Robert (BMW AG, Germany); DUELL, Simon; WAGNER, Sebastian; SCHWIENBACHER, Markus; LEIBOLD, Marion

A Unified Framework for Scenario Coverage Estimation and Representative Selection in Simulation-Based Testing of Automated Vehicles

ESSALIH, Anasse (Vedecom, France); ARAB, Abdel-Hakim; DURVILLE, Laurent; RAHAL, Mohamed-Cherif; LEBBAH, Mustapha; KHERJI, Walid; HADJ SELEM, Fouad

11:25 

Enhancing Longitudinal Motion Cueing via AI-Based Driver Behavior Prediction

FANG, Zhou (Renault, France); DE-OLIVEIRA, Fabien; QIU, Dongcheng; SOMMERVOGEL, Matthieu; COLOMBET, Florent; REGNIER, Stéphane

Creating OpenDRIVE maps for 3D models using the ODRoNeS plugin for Blender

Solernou, Albert (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Garcia de Pedro, Jorge; Chao, Hsuan

11:50

Evaluating Data-Driven Architectures for High-Fidelity Modeling of Driving Simulator Motion (Short)

LEGRAN, Philipp (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); RUSS, Fabian; Eckstein, Lutz

Applying a Representativity-Based Model Selection Framework to an Industrial ADAS Use Case (Short)

HALLAK, Yara (Renault Group, TCR, Guyancourt, France); Saab, Layal; Blouin, Dominique; Pautet, Laurent; Laborie, Baptiste

12:05

LUNCH

Gould Exhibition Space – 2nd floor

14:00

AUTOMOBILE OEM KEYNOTE SESSION

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Alessandro Salgarello (Chassis Advanced Engineer at Hyundai, Europe)

& Pilyoung Jeong (Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, Korea)

“Engineering Emotion: Driving Simulation for Efficient and Flexible Virtual‑Driven Development at Hyundai Motor Group”

 

Stéphane Régnier (Expert Leader Immersive Simulation and Virtual Reality at Renault, France)

“The convergence of XR and driving simulation for customer-centric vehicle Design”

15:00

Antipolis Auditorium

SCIENTIFIC PAPER SESSION

Simulation design

Fitzgerald Room

HYBRID SCIENTIFIC PAPER/PRODUCT SOLUTION PAPER SESSION

AI & Machine learning for Scenario generation

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CycloCARLA: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a High-Fidelity Bicycle Simulator (Short)

REBLING, Patrick (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany); RAUCH, Yannick; SANDER, Nico; NENNINGER, Philipp; KRIESTEN, Reiner

Open-Source Scenes and Scenarios for various Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications (Short)

Malena, Kevin (Paderborn University, Germany); Rizk, Abdelmawla; Fittkau, Niklas; Gausemeier, Sandra; Trächtler, Ansgar

15:15 

A Framework for Describing and Controlling Surrounding Traffic in Driving Simulator

TARLOWSKI, Sven (ika RWTH Aachen, Germany); Legran, Philipp; Eckstein, Lutz

AI-based simulation scenario generation from the ADScene complex scenarios

SADAT, Sofiane (Renault, France); MOHELLEBI, Hakim; Sentouh, Chouki; VAILLANT, Eric; ARNOUX, Emmanuel; REGNIER, Stephane; Popieul, Jean-Christophe

15:40

A Low-Cost Driving Simulator Platform for Integrated Vehicle Comparison, HIL testing and Public Engagement (Short)

HAEHNLEIN, Stefan (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany); FRUEH, Judith; RONECKER, Mirko; KLOEFFER, Christian

Deontic: An AI-Based Validation Intelligence Layer for Regulation-Ready Autonomous Driving (Short)

LERNOUT, Stephen (Deontic, Belgium)

 
15:55

CLOSING

Antipolis Auditorium

16:00END
Posters

SCIENTIFIC POSTERS

A Low-Cost Driving Simulator Platform for Real-Time Vehicle Comparison, Powertrain Test Bench Integration and Public Engagement

HAEHNLEIN, Stefan (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany);
FRUEH, Judith;
RONECKER, Mirko;
KLOEFFER, Christian

Absolute Accuracy Validation of a Perpendicular Distance Measurement Method in Unity3D: Implications for Virtual Reality Road Safety Studies

VAN DER STELT, Machiel (University of Western Australia, Australia);
Braunl, Thomas;
Roberts, Paul

Adaptive Cruise Control in a Mixed Reality Driving Simulator: Functional Validation and User Perception

Kovacevic, Nedim (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany);
Ge, Zizun;
Tekcan, Cagdas;
Stark, Rainer

Connecting a Bicycle Unity3D VR Simulator with a ScanerStudio Car VR Simulator: Steps Toward Real-Time Multi-Actor Road Safety Studies

VAN DER STELT, Machiel (University of Western Australia, Australia);
Braunl, Thomas;
Roberts, Paul

Acoustic measures to increase immersion in static driving simulators

DÜSELDER, Arne (fka GmbH, Germany);
DUTE, Marius

Designing a Balanced Order Driving Simulator Study with OpenSCENARIO

ANDERSSON, Anders (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Sweden)

Absolute Accuracy Validation of a Perpendicular Distance Measurement Method in Unity3D: Implications for Virtual Reality Road Safety Studies

VAN DER STELT, Machiel (University of Western Australia, Australia);
Braunl, Thomas;
Roberts, Paul

Improving Motion Cueing with High Shelf Filters

Brown, Craig (BrownSim Ltd, London, United Kingdom);
Smith, Edward;
Garrett, Nikhil;
Williams, Chris

Fatigue-Inducing Scenario Design for Truck-Driving Simulation: From Evidence to Implementation

Fonseca, Tiago (CITTA, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal);
Costa Botelho, Telmo;
Pedro Duarte, Sérgio;
Lobo, António;
Ferreira, Sara

Assessing Communication Behaviors between Excavator Operators, Human Workers and Assistance Systems on a Virtual Construction Site

REINHARD, René (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Germany);
HEKELE, Franziska;
SCHNEIDER, Jonathan;
NICOLAI, Tim;
EMMERICH, Sebastian;
BURGER, Michael

PRODUCT SOLUTION POSTERS

Virtual Reality Driving Simulator for Education – Form Factor, Cybersickness and Perception

Loeb, Helen (Jitsik, United States of America);
Smagulova, Ayagoz;
Rosenberg, Matan;
De La Pena, Eduardo;
Sniegs, Oskars

Test Management Process within SCANeR and the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

CORBIER, Franck (Dassault Systèmes, France);
LOEMBE, Sandrine;
GROS, Reine

Transforming Simulation with Reality-Based Neural Rendering & World Models

Kart, Tolga (Third Dimension AI, United States of America);
Sokolski, Piotr

| IMPORTANT DATES

1 Oct 2025 Call for Papers
31 Dec 2025 Abstract submission deadline for scientific papers and posters
15 Feb 2026 Abstract acceptance notification for scientific papers and posters
15 Apr 2026 Accepted full length scientific paper and poster abstract submission deadline
15 Apr 2026 Product solution paper submission deadline
1 May 2026 Registration for DSC 2026 opens
15 May 2026 Preliminary program online
1 June 2026 Final acceptance notification
15 July 2026 Final scientific and product solution papers due
15 July 2026 Final posters (A0) and poster abstracts due
31 July 2026 Early bird registration deadline
15 Aug 2026 Final paper presentations (.ppt) due
16–18 Sep 2026 DSC 2026 Europe XR
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