Range sensors simulation using GPU ray tracing

Abstract

In this paper the GPU-accelerated range sensors simulation is discussed. Range sensors generate large amount of data per second and to simulate these high-performance simulation is needed.We propose to use parallel ray tracing on graphics processing units to improve the performance of range sensors simulation. The multiple range sensors are described and simulated using NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine. This work is focused on the performance of the GPU acceleration of range images simulation in complex environments. Proposed method is tested using several state-of-the-art ray tracing datasets. The software is publicly available as an open-source project SensorSimRT.