In the Winter Olympics, whether it is the athletes of the short track speed skating relay team or the frog princess Gu Ailing, every gold win means that under the field, the athletes have exchanged a huge amount of effort for stable play and calm psychological quality.
Outside the arena, technology is giving the Winter Olympics the confidence to face the future.
In the Olympic Village, the living and office environment of athletes and staff has become a "science and technology show". Baidu, BAIC Group, Tsinghua, JD.com, Neolithic and other companies have come up with their proud gold medal products, through the blessing of autonomous driving, 5G and other technologies, for safe and efficient shuttle ferries, unmanned retail and unmanned distribution (feng) driving (kuang) escort (an) voyage (li).
Yiou Automobile believes that the outstanding performance of autonomous driving technology at the Winter Olympics may become the basis for its extensive commercialization in the future.
Under the warm and thoughtful service of this group of self-driving cars, technology companies use the most practical way to show the world the warmth of science and technology and the bottom card of strength.
The wind and snow are unimpeded, and after sending the torch, you can calmly "walk"
At a torch relay at Beijing's Winter Olympic Park on Feb. 2, the torch was passed from one amphibious robot to another. Through the green clean water-air cross-media torch full of scientific and technological sense, the scientific research team realized the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that the torch was passed from robot to robot.
On the same day, in the Shougang Park in Beijing, a Baidu Apollo self-driving car had the honor of becoming a torchbearer and completed an 800-meter torch relay.
At the same time, the self-driving cars in the Shougang Park officially began to "open for business".
Robotaxi, which Baidu and Superstar Future have cooperated with, Robotaxi, Shougang Park and Baidu, baina fivous autopilot fleet and Segway-Ninebot's three-wheeled scooter, are providing connections for tourists;
Meituan unmanned delivery vehicles and Neolithic unmanned retail vehicles are on standby for catering needs;
UBTECH's intelligent inspection robot ATRIS (Security Patrol) replaces the security personnel, silently guarding every corner of the park, and once a suspicious person is found, it will trigger a security alarm;
Smart Walkers and large sweepers take care of some of the cleaning work in the park.
According to Yiou Automobile, the special project of the Winter Olympics of Science and Technology was entrusted by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and jointly undertaken by Shougang Group, Tsinghua University, Baidu, Zhixinger Technology, Foton Automobile and Beijing Municipal Traffic Management Bureau.
Shougang Park is the seat of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, as well as three Olympic training centers and one competition venue. As important work "personnel" in the Olympic Park, these autonomous vehicles do their best.
(Image source: Weibo - Urban Transportation Magazine)
For example, when a tour group or business group visits the park, BAIC's self-driving fleet can accommodate multiple people and travel more freely than unmanned minibuses. The Norte team serving the Olympic Park consists of 4 vehicles, each carrying 11 people.
Because only the head car in the team is driven by a human driver, it looks a bit like a "snake" without tracks.
The company's three-wheeled scooter is more flexible, and unlike the company's previous two-wheeled scooter, the scooter landing in Shougang Park has three wheels and can drive without the help of manpower.
What is surprising is that these scooters do not need manual operation and maintenance, and only by relying on the background scheduling system, they can remotely return to the distribution point by themselves, ensuring that there can be a relatively average distribution of vehicles at each distribution point in the park.
Neolithic unmanned retail cars beckon to stop, live and loose is a mobile shop. Not only will food and drinks be provided on board, but during the 2022 Winter Olympics, you can also purchase Cultural and Creative Products with Shougang characteristics at any time.
(Source: Beijing Expo official website)
In addition, Meituan has set up 15 MAI SHOP sites in the Shougang Park, all named after fruits.
(Source: The Paper)
Meituan's unmanned delivery car magic bag through tacit cooperation with the MAI SHOP site to help people complete the automatic order delivery during the Winter Olympics - just by scanning the QR code on the site to place an order, Meituan's unmanned car will tell the orderer where the takeaway is through text messages and voice phone notifications when it leaves and arrives at the site.
(Source: Beijing Daily)
In addition to the autonomous vehicles in shougang park, at this year's Winter Olympics, the Olympic version of the Fuxing intelligent EMU also achieved automatic driving at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour for the first time in the world.
This set of EMUs can not only be automated at high speeds, but also can accurately control the parking error to 10-20 cm.
(Source: Weibo-2022 Beijing Press Center)
The painting scheme of the EMU "Ruixue Welcoming Spring" more echoes the Olympic theme - based on ice and snow blue, with a fluttering white streamer, which puts an artistic coat on black technology. The media compartment and 5G ultra-high-definition studio carried in the EMU can also achieve long-term stable transmission of ultra-high-definition signals, making the coverage of the Winter Olympics more abundant and diverse.
Calm and relaxed, driving not only with "eyes" but also with "heart"
Whether it is a park or a track, or an Olympic torch relay site, it is no accident that self-driving cars can shine during the Winter Olympics because they can come and go freely, and hold obstacles and dead corners in place.
Since there is no mature commercial landing plan for autonomous vehicles, the laboratory technology of global automatic driving is basically in the L3 stage, and if you want to apply this technology to the connecting car during the Winter Olympics on a large scale, the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has to make some efforts.
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According to the "Science and Technology Winter Olympics (2022) Action Plan" led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, it has carried out work in 8 aspects such as "zero-row energy supply, green travel, 5G sharing, smart spectators, sports technology, clean environment, safe competition, and international cooperation", and has deployed and arranged 80 projects.
In the view of Yiou Automobile, unlike the black technology behind the scenes such as carbon reduction and emission reduction and sports technology, self-driving cars with a variety of brands and functions drive on the open road surface, realizing realistic road tests, and it is also a collective declaration for the world.
And in the event of an accident, the severity of the impact will never be less than the reputation of its harvest. Compared with the warm and pleasant Summer Olympics, February in Beijing is not only low in temperature and dry air, but also faces extreme weather such as snow and fog, with low visibility and greater travel obstacles. Under such conditions, the challenge of self-driving cars is more difficult.
In order to overcome the interference that may be caused by the complex environment and sensor restrictions and the vehicle itself, the special research group of the Winter Olympics of Science and Technology focuses on the development of the autonomous vehicle platform and the development of the intelligent traffic environment, and develops a vehicle platform that meets the requirements of automatic driving for the weather characteristics of the Winter Olympics and the complex traffic scenarios of mixed flow of people and vehicles, and builds an intelligent traffic environment in Shougang Park.
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In fact, the special research group has developed a set of universal automatic driving system for the Winter Olympics to ensure that multi-brand, multi-model and multi-style autonomous driving shuttles can adapt to different weather and complex road conditions in the three major competition areas of the Winter Olympic Games.
Today, the Olympic Games are more than halfway through, and in the Olympic Park, the application of autonomous driving products is also running in an orderly manner - L4 level autonomous driving connection fleet (taxis, buses), retail vehicles, logistics vehicles, etc. have been integrated with the Shougang Park.
The vehicles are moving calmly, and the weather and the moving pedestrians in the park do not seem to affect their normal operation in the slightest.
High-precision map positioning, 5G commercial intelligent vehicle networking, artificial intelligence and cloud computing play a vital role in the process of building intelligent networking. According to Yiou Automobile, under the cooperation of these technologies, a total of 17 5G base stations, 14 roadside units (RSUs) and 1 Beidou foundation enhancement station have been deployed in the park, with a total area of 1 million square meters.
(Source: Shougang News Center)
The smart park, which is composed of infrastructure such as dedicated lanes for autonomous driving, wireless charging stations, and intelligent traffic lights, will also become a mobile and replicable autonomous driving park template.
The radar and camera sensors equipped with the autonomous vehicle itself are also powerful enough to further help the vehicle accurately identify road signs and react quickly to road conditions. With the blessing of various cutting-edge technologies, autonomous vehicles can not only achieve the eyes like a mirror, but also the heart like a mirror.
epilogue
The holding of a grand event often involves the whole body. The empowerment of science and technology not only makes all aspects closely intertwined, but also brings unattainable improvements to the safety, convenience and efficiency of the Winter Olympic venues.
The Beijing Winter Olympics opened the door of the country to welcome guests, and China's automatic driving, which is at the forefront of the world, makes guests feel at home with the warm service of connection and delivery, which not only has the "face" of the style of a big country, but also has the use of hard core strength to build a strong "Lizi".
Yiou Automobile believes that after the completion of such a formal and complete landing of the autonomous driving technology that is striving to grow, its large-scale commercialization will be carried out one after another.
The mature applications of the Winter Olympics have also allowed technology and scenarios to meet and merge with each other, providing a certain path for the next development of autonomous driving.