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Plover and Ability Systems to develop port self-driving safety tests
Plover and Ability Systems signed an agreement to develop a testing system for autonomous vehicles used at ports.
Plover works on AI testing for mobility, while Ability Systems develops port logistics automation.
Ports are moving toward driverless yard tractors and automated guided vehicles, which carry containers and other loads.
The companies plan to combine AI tests with software-based and hardware-based checks before vehicles are used in real operations.
Tests will use virtual sensor data and port operating data, then connect selected driving situations to real vehicle control units for further checks.
The goal is to identify safety problems before deployment and assess the effect of software changes.
The companies said they plan to expand cooperation to system design, testing, practical trials, and work on standards and certification.
Plover and Ability Systems signed an agreement to build a development and verification environment for port autonomous-driving systems.
The system will combine AI-based testing with software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop verification.
The companies aim to check vehicle safety before autonomous vehicles are used at port sites.
Plover will test software with virtual sensor and port-operation data, while Ability Systems will set verification conditions based on port operations.
Their planned collaboration may expand to system design, testing, demonstrations, and standards and certification work.
- Who
- Plover, a mobility AI verification company, and Ability Systems, a port logistics automation company.
- What
- They signed an agreement to develop and verify port autonomous-driving systems.
- When
- 14 October 2026.
- Where
- At the 2026 THE NEXT AI x SMATOF exhibition.
- Why
- To check the safety of autonomous port vehicles before they are used on site.
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Plover and Ability Systems signed a memorandum of understanding at the 2026 THE NEXT AI x SMATOF exhibition.
The companies plan to broaden cooperation to system design, functional and performance testing, demonstrations, and standards and certification work.
- Agreement date
- 14 October 2026
- Companies
- Plover and Ability Systems
- Testing methods
- AI-based testing, SIL and HIL
- Port vehicles
- Yard tractors and automated guided vehicles (AGVs)
- Event venue
- 2026 THE NEXT AI x SMATOF exhibition
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What people are saying
For the intelligence and automation of port logistics, it is important not only to advance autonomous-driving technology but also to ensure system safety from the development stage.
We will support the automation of yard tractors and the shift to AGVs by linking port-site data with verification technology.