Tencent Auto News On April 18, Jidu Automobile released the design details of the front part of the first car robot concept car. From the design drawings, the concept car adopts a dual lidar scheme, which is set at the headlights and the front cover respectively. Wang Weibao, head of Jidu Intelligent Driving, revealed that NVIDIA Orin and Hesai AT128 semi-solid-state lidar have been put on the car to participate in the test of Jidu automatic driving system.
This means that Jidu is based on Apollo's unmanned autonomous driving capabilities, and the high-end autonomous driving technology solution for mass production has been fully exposed for the first time. Wang Weibao said that Jidu SIMUCar (Software Integration Mule Car) has been iteratively upgraded to version 2.0, and its automatic driving system has added lidar sensors and integrated with Jet1.0 (electronic and electrical architecture + SOA), a high-level autonomous driving intelligent architecture developed by Jidu.
It is reported that the pure vision and lidar autonomous driving scheme being tested and developed in the SIMUCar 2.0 stage is an independent dual system that can achieve "true redundancy" after mass production. Wang Weibao said that compared with the traditional solution, the two sets of automatic driving solutions of Jidu are mutual backup and complement each other, and the two sets of solutions can be both efficient self-driving and efficient collaboration.
Wang Weibao believes that the SIMUCar 1.0 stage, like a person's primary school stage, is a key period to lay a good foundation, focusing more on the basic capacity building of automatic driving, including the development of software architecture and related basic functional logic, and adapting to the chassis. SIMUCar 2.0 is like the middle school stage, at this stage the underlying architecture has been upgraded to a set of self-developed high-level autonomous driving intelligent architecture JET (JIDU Evolving Technology), including electronic and electrical architecture EEA and vehicle operating system SOA, related domain controllers and sensors, has gradually reached the mass production state, some basic automatic driving capabilities, including ADAS functions, parking, intelligent interaction, etc., will gradually reach the mass production state.
Jidu revealed that the first large-scale brand conference ROBBODAY, which was originally scheduled to be held in April, will be postponed due to the epidemic. Previously, Jidu has announced that it will release its first automotive robot concept car in 2022 and unveiled it at this year's Beijing Auto Show. Its first mass-produced automotive robot will be delivered in 2023, when it will have high-end autonomous driving capabilities, and its second mass-produced car is expected to be released at the Guangzhou Auto Show at the end of this year. (Text/Tencent Auto Xie Wan)