Tanwei Technology and Mainline Technology reached a strategic cooperation to jointly promote the mass production of autonomous trucks

Jiwei Network News, on January 19, 2022, LiDAR Company Tanwei Technology and Self-driving Truck Company Mainline Technology held a strategic cooperation conference in Beijing, officially announcing that the two sides will carry out comprehensive business cooperation and in-depth technical exploration in autonomous commercial vehicles and intelligent logistics. In the future, Tanwei Technology will work with Mainline Technology to develop and build a vehicle-grade hybrid solid-state lidar sensing technology solution based on the ALS technology platform and hardware-level image pre-fusion, helping the mass production process of autonomous trucks and the large-scale landing of intelligent logistics business.

It is reported that Tanwei Technology has been looking for the ultimate answer to lidar in the intelligent vehicle end, and now lidar has developed from mechanical to hybrid solid state, which mainly solves the problem of vehicle-level environmental stability. However, in the autonomous driving scenario, the vehicle specification level is only a basic requirement, and providing excellent performance and the lowest cost is the key to determining the landing possibility and mass production scale. Especially at the key node of mass production, a set of perception schemes that take into account vehicle regulations, performance and cost are needed to help autonomous driving companies move towards large-scale application landing, therefore, Tanwei Technology will provide a full set of lidar solutions based on ALS platform and hardware-level image pre-fusion technology, covering a full range of products from 16 lines to 192 lines, which can meet the sensing needs of all automatic driving scenarios from ports to trunk logistics.

Zhang Tianlei, CEO of Mainline Technology, said that self-driving trucks have entered the highway, accelerated mass production work, and deployed more vehicles to achieve a new generation of artificial intelligence logistics network national networking has become the core development goal of Mainline Technology. To this end, Mainline Technology actively lays out the industrial ecology, and works with partners to crack the "card point" of the mass production of autonomous trucks. Unique in the field of lidar, especially the significant advantages in product performance and vehicle-level mass production capabilities, It will become a "god assist" for large-scale mass production of autonomous trucks and the realization of fully unmanned driving technology. Mainline Technology and Tanwei Technology have the same concept and desire for cooperation, hoping that the two sides will jointly rush to the golden track of self-driving trucks and arrive at the new world of intelligent logistics network as soon as possible.

It is worth mentioning that Mainline Technology has successfully launched the "Trunk Master" autonomous driving system for a new generation of mass production autonomous trucks, and has invested hundreds of autonomous trucks to operate and test in port and highway scenarios, which is the largest fleet of autonomous trucks that are currently put into real testing and commercial operation. In 2021, Mainline Technology obtained the first batch of commercial vehicle autonomous driving test licenses in Beijing, and took the lead in opening the high-speed open road normalization test of L4 automatic driving. At the same time, based on the trunk logistics autonomous truck fleet, Mainline Technology is carrying out special line transportation business with head logistics partners, and the cumulative transportation mileage has exceeded 1.5 million kilometers.

In the past year, Tanwei Technology has successively released Scope's iterative products and a new 192-line vehicle specification grade hybrid solid-state lidar, and completed the construction of the vehicle specification factory and the off-line delivery of the product. Now, the lidar of Exploration and Maintenance Technology has covered a variety of application scenarios from vehicle-road collaboration, intelligent logistics to automatic driving, and through the empowerment of hardware-level image pre-fusion technology, it will achieve cross-era multi-sensor fusion capabilities and perception accuracy.

Under the background of the country's vigorous promotion of smart transportation and smart logistics, mainline technology and tanwei technology focus on domestic and foreign markets based on their respective products and technical advantages, and jointly create L4-level automatic driving system solutions in the new era to achieve comprehensive intelligence of commercial transportation and logistics. (Proofreading/Andy)