Autonomous driving has become a new arena for the global automotive industry, standing behind automatic driving, high-precision maps are a key part of autonomous driving becoming a reality, accurate maps for autonomous vehicle positioning, navigation and control, as well as real-time data updates, are playing a vital role. At present, there are many Internet companies, technology companies, OEMs, start-ups and other entrants in the field of high-precision maps, but how to achieve commercialization and application is still a problem facing the industry. Where is the core technology? What will be the demand for high-precision maps in the future? What kind of solutions will companies bring in the face of industry challenges?
On August 15th, the 2019 Autonomous Driving Map and Positioning Conference was grandly opened in Beijing, which focused on the hot spots and key topics of current industry concern, and invited relevant practitioners and researchers such as OEMs, parts companies, technology companies, universities, etc., to make keynote speeches and participate in on-site discussions and exchanges.
The conference was co-hosted by Gaz Automotive and Wuhan Development Zone, co-organized by the Autonomous Driving Map and Positioning Working Group of China Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Industry Innovation Alliance, and the event was also strongly supported by Western Digital, ADCom, NavInfo, U-BLOX, Lierno and other enterprises.
Zhang Dehua, member of the Working Committee of Wuhan Development Zone and member of the Standing Committee of Hannan District
At the event site, Zhang Dehua, member of the Working Committee of Wuhan Development Zone and member of the Standing Committee of Hannan District, delivered a speech, in which he said: At present, the vigorous development of a new generation of information and communication, new energy, new materials and other technologies has opened the curtain of a new round of industrial change, opened a new chapter in intelligent manufacturing, and also provided a rare opportunity for traditional automobiles to transform and upgrade to the next generation of automobiles. Smart cars are one of the biggest industrial opportunities, and autonomous driving has greatly exceeded market expectations in terms of technological breakthroughs, industrialization, and public acceptance.
Zhou Xiaoying, CEO of Gestapo Motors
Ms. Zhou Xiaoying, CEO of Gaz Automotive, said: The global automotive industry is experiencing a historical industrial change that is rare in a century, with the rapid development of electrification, intelligence, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G and other technologies, the boundaries of the industry are being rapidly shattered, and more and more new entrants are pouring in, reconstructing the products of the automobile itself, the industrial ecology and the business model.
Song Baicheng, senior analyst of Gaz Automotive Research Institute
For the domestic market, Song Baicheng, senior analyst of The Gaz Automotive Research Institute, said that through the data estimates, the Gaz Automotive Research Institute believes that there will be rapid growth in high-precision maps in 2026, exceeding 10 billion yuan. In the long run, the future of high-precision maps is still growing, the growth space is larger, the future of the car will gradually use high-precision map products.
Dan Zhang, Product Marketing Director of Western Digital
Zhang Dan, product marketing director of Western Digital, believes that storage is the warehouse of data, so he has always paid attention to the development of data. The reason why we continue to focus on the automotive industry is because the data carrying capacity of bicycles has increased significantly. With the networking and autonomous driving of cars, the amount of bicycle storage has increased significantly, from 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB to 256GB or even higher in the future.
Hu Chenxi, Director of Intelligent Networking Division of Meihang Technology
Hu Chenxi, director of the intelligent networking business department of Meihang Technology, believes that inertial positioning is one of the cores of automatic driving, and multi-fusion positioning technology is the future of positioning technology. Inertial navigation and lane-level positioning can make ar navigation performance effect better, and the use of inertial navigation and lane-level positioning in AR navigation can make the guidance prompts more consistent with reality and avoid problems.
Gu Xiaofeng, head of Tencent HIGH-precision Maps
Gu Xiaofeng, head of Tencent's high-precision map, said that the collection is the source of high-precision maps, no matter what kind of technology is used, with visual technology or other technologies, the future will join millimeter wave radar, first of all, the first is high-quality availability, the second is how to reduce costs, the ultimate cheap may lead to the ultimate unavailability, where the balance point is, is to design the collection platform to consider the cost focus.
She Dangen, head of the high-precision map business of Baidu's intelligent automobile division
She Dangen, head of the HIGH-precision map business of Baidu's intelligent automobile business department, focused on Baidu's progress in the high-precision map business and raised some questions. In 2013, Baidu began to be keenly aware that autonomous driving and the map that automatic driving relies on may be a new form, so it began to investigate related technologies, and at the same time reorganized the technology, production, processing and final productization of the collection car, and the data delivered.
Bosch Product Manager Presentation
From Bosch's point of view, the statement believes that in order for autonomous vehicles to drive safely, it is necessary to provide accurate, safe and reliable positioning results under all working conditions, so our proposed solution is based on positioning results that are redundant and complementary to satellite positioning and feature positioning. For satellite positioning, we have developed vehicle motion and position sensor products, which we call satellite positioning intelligent sensors, which provide absolute position information.
Senior Marketing Manager of u-blox Mei Jinghao
No sensor can obtain an accurate location information at any time and any place, and we must rely on lidar, camera, radar and map to match and fuse to obtain reliable and effective location information. While GNSS provides more lane-level, high-reliability, high-integrity location information, Mei Jinghao, senior marketing manager of u-blox, delivered a speech on GNSS positioning in automatic driving.
NavInfo Senior Product Manager Zhu Han
Zhu Han, senior product manager of NavInfo, said that when driving autonomously, all judgments are transferred from the hands of people to the hands of machines. So we will feel that in this process, the map of automatic driving has completed not only the decision of the map, but also the map service that assists the automatic driving how to complete the automatic driving behavior.
Chery Automobile Zhou Junjie
As part of intelligent transportation, whether it is intelligent transportation or intelligent vehicles, all of them are aimed at maximizing the use of information and maximizing efficiency, which is the initial purpose. In this process, how to support autonomous driving, intelligent transportation and other services through the platform of intelligent transportation, people, vehicles and objects through the Internet of Things. Zhou Junjie of Chery Automobile believes that there are only two levels of self-driving cars, either assisted driving or automatic driving, there is no intermediate state, and there is no intermediate state.
Guo Jishun, Director of the Intelligent Driving Technology Department of GAC Research Institute
Our current L4-level HD map basically drops all the features of L3, almost every kilometer at 60 to 100 kilometers, and is fully compressed. The mass production of L4 still needs more time, and it needs to solve the problems of redundant sensors, redundant power supplies, etc. just mentioned, Guo Jishun, director of the Intelligent Driving Technology Department of GAC Research Institute, said at the scene.
The roundtable discussion session was presided over by Zhou Xiaoying, CEO of Gaz Automotive, Zhu Han, senior product manager of NavInfo, Hu Chenxi, director of the intelligent networking business department of Meihang Technology, Guo Jishun, director of the intelligent driving technology department of GAC Research Institute, and Mei Jinghao, senior marketing manager of u-blox, participated in the discussion, and the guests discussed the role of high-precision maps in the entire autonomous driving.
At the event site, for the development and future of high-precision maps, automatic driving, the big coffee cut in from different angles, not only put forward many questions to be answered, but also through years of deep cultivation of industry expertise and ability reserves, shared with the participants the practical solutions and applications they can provide at this stage.