RoboSense LiDAR enables large-scale implementation of all scenarios of intelligent driving

The 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference with the theme of "Intelligently Connecting the World, Building a City of Wisdom" was held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center. Many RoboSense partners, including intelligent driving technology companies, intelligent car manufacturers, and intelligent robot companies, appeared at the conference together, showcasing the latest technologies and rich commercialization projects in the field of intelligent driving.

2020 is known as the "first year" of mass production of LiDAR. Since July 2020, RoboSense's RS-LiDAR-M1 intelligent solid-state LiDAR has received orders for designated models from L3 heavy-duty truck solution technology companies, North American new energy vehicle companies, Chinese "new strength and new power" car companies, traditional OEMs, top supercar brands and other car companies, covering a variety of models from supercars to family cars, from passenger cars to commercial vehicles.

In daily driving, drivers need to carefully handle special road conditions in different scenarios and always pay attention to different road areas: when driving on the highway, pay attention to dynamic vehicles and small static obstacles in the distance; when passing street intersections, be alert to surrounding pedestrians and two-wheeled vehicles; when passing through congested sections, be wary of surrounding vehicles forcing their way in.

Intelligent driving also needs to face a variety of different driving scenarios, which requires that the performance of lidar hardware needs to be optimized based on environmental perception under different road conditions.

Taking into account hardware performance, efficiency and cost, we have upgraded the LiDAR hardware to achieve camera-like zoom technology and achieved efficient application results. We call this intelligent function "GAZE", which means focusing on the key perception area that the driver is concerned about at any time.

Winche Technology

Two mass-produced autonomous heavy-duty truck solutions

At this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Inceptio Technology showcased two mass-produced models of autonomous heavy-duty trucks, which were jointly developed by Inceptio Technology, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. and China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., respectively. Both are equipped with the Inceptio Xuanyuan autonomous driving system and are the world's earliest mass-produced autonomous heavy-duty trucks.

The Inceptio booth displayed for the first time a full set of automotive-grade hardware for the Xuanyuan autonomous driving system, including all components including the long-range LiDAR M1 provided by RoboSense. All components have undergone rigorous certification in the three stages of engineering, development, and production, as well as electrical, mechanical, environmental, and electromagnetic tests and verifications, meeting the reliability and durability requirements of a heavy-duty truck's 1.5 million-kilometer life cycle. Following the completion of the winter Heihe cold zone test, the Inceptio mass-produced prototype has now completed the accelerated durability test and is about to conduct a high-temperature durability test in Hainan.

In May 2021, Yingche obtained the highest level ISO26262 ASIL D functional safety process certification in the field of heavy-duty truck autonomous driving in China, among which the RoboSense long-range lidar M1 met the ASIL B functional safety requirements.

Black sesame

Automotive-grade autonomous driving chip platform

As an industry-leading automotive-grade autonomous driving computing chip and platform R&D company, Heizhima showcased its Huashan series of high-performance automotive-grade autonomous driving computing chips, vehicle-road collaborative roadside perception computing platform, Shanhai artificial intelligence development platform and other products and solutions at the conference.

Heizhima Intelligence is based in Tier 2. Focusing on its core product, the Huashan series of high-performance automotive-grade autonomous driving computing chips, combined with the highly open Shanhai artificial intelligence development tool platform and a rich AI reference model library, it connects multiple aspects of smart car perception, fusion, positioning, decision-making, planning, and control, empowering car manufacturers and Tier 1 and helping to expand the full range of automotive intelligence.

Pony.ai

The latest autonomous driving service models

This year marks the fourth consecutive year that Pony.ai has appeared at the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference. At the conference, Pony.ai announced that its autonomous driving travel service (Robotaxi) has officially started demonstration operation in Jiading, Shanghai, covering major urban roads in Jiading District, and revealed the details of Pony.ai's commercial operations for the first time.

The vehicles put into service by Pony.ai are Lexus RX models equipped with the latest autonomous driving system. The black hemispherical sensor embedded in the body of this model below the rearview mirror is the RS-Bpearl laser radar specially designed by RoboSense for near-field blind spot compensation. With its unique hemispherical field of view, this laser radar helps driverless vehicles achieve near-field perception of the body without blind spots.

During the conference, Pony.ai dispatched 12 vehicles of this type to provide uninterrupted shuttle services to guests and audiences, allowing exhibitors to experience the autonomous driving technology more directly like an "experienced driver".

AutoX

Two driverless taxi models

On the eve of the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Chinese driverless company AutoX released its fifth-generation fully driverless system, AutoX Gen5. In addition to the new generation of driverless systems, AutoX also exhibited its autonomous driving test fleet solution built with Honda China based on Honda models. Both models are equipped with RoboSense 128-line laser radar RS-Ruby.

Alibaba

Intelligent logistics robot "Little Donkey"

Alibaba's booth exhibited its full range of ecological technology solutions and product portfolios, and the "Little Donkey" equipped with RoboSense customized linear laser radar also appeared on the booth.

On June 10 this year, at the 2021 Global Smart Logistics Summit held in Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City, Alibaba Chief Technology Officer and Cainiao Chief Technology Officer CTO Cheng Li announced that in the coming year, Alibaba Cainiao will deploy 1,000 logistics unmanned vehicles "Xiaomanlu" to more than 20 universities and communities. This will become the largest-scale real-life application of logistics unmanned vehicles in the country.

RoboSense's customized new generation 32-line laser radar can simultaneously detect low objects on the ground near the unmanned vehicle and perceive forward obstacles on the driving path. A single laser radar can achieve 360-degree high-precision environmental perception and vehicle blind spot detection.

Deep Intelligence

L4 driverless delivery solution

Xingshen Zhixing's L4 unmanned delivery vehicle landed at this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference in the most eye-catching bright yellow paint. A month ago, this eye-catching bright yellow figure was still shuttling around the epidemic prevention and control site in Liwan District, Guangzhou, delivering meals and daily necessities to a large number of medical staff, community workers, volunteers and other frontline anti-epidemic personnel.

Xingshen Zhixing's L4 driverless delivery vehicle solution is equipped with three RoboSense laser radars and uses multi-source fusion perception and positioning technology to ensure the accurate positioning and delivery of the unmanned vehicle. The single vehicle has a load capacity of 400kg and can deliver hundreds of boxed meals each time, with high delivery efficiency.

Furitec

Mass production-level autonomous driving technology solutions

As one of the leaders in China's mass-production autonomous driving technology, Furuitech has the ability to independently develop complete intelligent driving technology from perception, planning to control execution. It has currently reached designated and mass production cooperation with more than 40 models of mainstream automobile companies such as FAW, SAIC, Changan, Geely, Chery, Dongfeng, Foton, and Shaanxi Automobile.

An autonomous driving minibus called "Blue Fatso" based on the L4 intelligent driving system was exhibited at the Furitec booth. The solution deployed three RoboSense lidars, six high-definition cameras, five millimeter-wave radars and 16 ultrasonic radars around the vehicle body, combined with the use of 5G networks, to achieve coordination between single-vehicle intelligence and networked intelligence, greatly improving the safety of autonomous driving.

Wanwei Robot

Security inspection robot solution

Wanwei Robot also brought its robot solutions to the conference. The high labor cost in the property industry has always been a focal issue in the industry's development. It is an inevitable trend for machines to replace labor. As a representative of property service robots, Wanwei keeps up with the cutting-edge technology of intelligent AI and continues to contribute to the cost reduction and efficiency increase of enterprises with its advanced patrol, cleaning, security and other property service robot products and technologies.

Hardware intelligence is part of RoboSense's layout in the Smart LiDAR Sensor System, and the "Gaze" function version of M1 also won the CES 2019 Innovation Award.

Currently, RoboSense has completed batch prototype verification of the "Gaze" function with designated customers. Since June, the "Gaze" function will be officially launched in the new version of RS-LiDAR-M1.