On October 27, the 7th International Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Technology Annual Conference (CICV 2020) and the Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China were held in Shanghai. With the theme of "Automotive + Collaborative Innovation", the annual meeting discussed and exchanged views on the development trend of vehicle electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing. At the meeting, Shang Jin, general manager and chief technology officer of Sinoc Automobile Intelligent Control, signed a contract with Changan, BYD, Dongfeng, BAIC, GAC, Geely, Great Wall, Yutong, Weichai, Sinotruk, SINOTRUK, CHINAC Chuangzhi, Shanghai Chuangshi and Millume Technology, respectively, signing a contract and attending the signing ceremony, with the intention of close cooperation in the research and development and industrialization of the intelligent and connected vehicle computing basic platform.
Under the background of the "new four modernizations" of automobiles, "software-defined automobiles" has become the consensus of the industry. Standing at the crossroads of the transformation of the automobile industry, how to achieve the key technologies in the field of intelligent and connected vehicles in China to achieve "lane change and overtaking", the computing basic platform has become a new technological highland recognized by the industry and the focus of industrial competition. To this end, The reporter of China Net interviewed Dr. Shang Jin, general manager and chief technology officer of Sinocar Intelligent Control and chief technical expert of China Automobile (Beijing) Intelligent Connected Vehicle Research Institute Co., Ltd.
As a new incremental parts assembly of the core of intelligent vehicles, the computing basic platform is an industrial Internet vehicle basic platform for intelligent vehicles and the whole ecology based on basic hardware and basic common software, taking into account the urgent needs of the market and national supervision, and positioning the next generation of automotive electronics industry chain tier 1.5. The computing infrastructure platform is broadly compatible with third-party heterogeneous distribution hardware downwards, and widely supports the differentiated application software development requirements of tier1 and OEMs upwards. Its mass production application is not only an important symbol of the realization of intelligence and networking in the automotive industry, but also an important support for the application of innovative technologies such as cloud computing and 5G communication in intelligent networked vehicles in addition to bicycle intelligence.
At the level of autonomous and controllable computing basic platform technology, on the one hand, according to the actual needs of domestic OEMs and the form of China's industrial chain, the overall architecture of China's intelligent networked vehicle computing basic platform is defined. Different from the foreign bicycle intelligent technology route, the "China Solution" highlights the characteristic concept of "vehicle-road-cloud" collaboration, and forms a systematic solution with local attributes based on Chinese standard road infrastructure, high-precision maps, network communication, information security, etc. At the same time, it builds a widely common and industry-unified computing basic platform, and has a flexible architecture that can be plugged in and expanded to support domestic OEMs to carry out differentiated and customized development. Through the industrialization path of the system, the autonomous controllability of the computing basic platform products is first realized, so as to drive the technical autonomy and controllability of important chips, hardware, cores, middleware and other components, and firmly grasp the core technology sovereignty of future intelligent vehicles.
In the context of this industrial development, Guoqi Intelligent Control (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. came into being as the first platform company incubated by the National Innovation Center of Intelligent Networking, which was registered and established at the end of July 2020, and its main business is the technology research and product development, industrialization promotion and ecological cultivation of the new core components of intelligent networked vehicles - the computing basic platform.
The founding team clearly defined the overall architecture of the computing infrastructure platform from the top-level design level and reached an industry consensus, occupying the industry's first-mover advantage in product design architecture, and at the same time, with the help of the China Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Innovation Alliance, the radius of communication with customers was further shortened in the resources of the main engine factory and accelerated the landing of products. The company attracts cross-border and experienced industry leaders to join and create a converged innovation team of embedded systems, vehicle engineering, ICT, algorithms and hardware experts.
In addition, as one of the leading units, Sinopec participates in the automotive basic software working group, and participates in the formulation of automotive basic software related standards by studying the technical route, infrastructure and development mode of automotive basic software, ensuring the quality of automotive basic software, shortening the development cycle of automotive basic software, reducing the development cost of automotive basic software, and is committed to creating an ecological chain of automotive basic software applications in China.
Dr. Shang Jin said: The company is currently promoting the research and development of the intelligent connected car operating system icv.os (intelligent connected vehicles operation system), which decouples the hardware while extracting the common framework to support the application development of the upper layer, which can support the automatic driving scenario of l0-l4 and functions. At present, the release of version 0.5 has been completed, and the product integration is realized on the whole vehicle, and the next step will be to fully promote the 1.0 version and enter the stage of mass production of special vehicles.
In addition to promoting the rapid landing of the on-board computing basic platform, the vehicle control operating system, combined with network cloud control, digital twins and other technologies are extended to the road end and the cloud, and the collaborative operating system of "car-road-cloud" trinity is constructed. And work together with upstream and downstream industry chain partners to jointly establish an independent industrialization chain and create an independent and open ecology, break the long-term industrial monopoly of developed countries in Europe and the United States, and accelerate the realization of the "China Plan" intelligent vehicle independent and controllable industrialization.