On November 29, the '2017 Automotive Leaders in Mobility Transformation' co-sponsored by the China Automobile News Agency and Roland Berger was held in Beijing, and Bosch won the '2017 Leaders of Autonomous Driving Reform.'
November 17, Roland Berger, partner Kang Bohan, "China Automotive News" correspondent came to Suzhou, Jiangsu, Bosch chassis control system in China Chen Liming, president of the office, drank fragrant Coffee, together into China's "car - travel" history of Bosch chassis control system in China's development track.
He has 23 years of working experience and has held management positions in the chassis control system of Bosch for many years. Since June 2012, he has been the president of Bosch Chassis Control System in China and a director of Bosch Automotive Components (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Bosch Automotive Components (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Bosch (East China Sea) Automotive Test Technology Center Co., Ltd. and Bosch (Hulunbeir) Automotive Test Technology Center Co., Ltd. Director and General Manager.
Bosch has other system components and performance testing unmatched ability of auto parts suppliers.Chen Liming told reporters: 'Including millimeter wave radar, stereo camera, laser radar, including the key technologies of automatic driving, we are actively layout, In-depth localization of these technologies and, in addition, Bosch has leading experience in redundant driving design for autonomous driving. '
'We are trying our best to be the leader of autonomous driving technology.' "When a reporter mentioned the responsibility of Bosch Chassis Control Systems in autonomous driving in the era of 'car-travel' change, Chen Liming replied in a sentence and further explained , 'Autopilot system is a very complex system engineering, not a company can solve, but we will through their years of accumulation of technology, rich product layout and continuous R & D investment, and vehicle companies, BAT and other links Excellent enterprises work closely together to actively promote the arrival of China's auto-driving era. '
The first company to introduce ESP into the Chinese market
Since its establishment in China in 2002, Bosch Chassis Control System has invested about 3 billion yuan in China so far and owns 3 R & D centers (including 2 world-class automobile testing centers) and 5 factories (2 under construction). The management includes Sales, research and development (software development, hardware development, platform development, applications, etc.), manufacturing, quality management, human resources, finance, etc., with 4,100 employees and annual sales of more than 10 billion yuan.
August 1 this year, Nanjing iBooster factory officially laid the foundation stone and will begin production in 2019. Chen Liming told reporters: 'We early in the early establishment of the latest intelligent booster system introduced to the Chinese auto market, which will Greatly support the development of electrification in China. '
In addition, Chen Liming also told reporters: 'We provide ABS / ESP, airbag controller, brake booster, millimeter wave and ultrasonic radar for 79 OEMs (45 of which own brands and 34 joint-venture brands) Camera, various sensors related to active and passive safety, etc. 'In the past 15 years, chassis system control China has continuously introduced the most advanced technologies and products to the Chinese market, leading the active / passive safety and braking systems, Driver assistance and autopilot technology.
Bosch is the first foreign auto parts company to introduce ESP into the Chinese market. ESP is also a pioneer in promoting and applying ESP in the Chinese market. In addition to actively publicizing and popularizing ESP knowledge in the Chinese market, Bosch also devotes itself to improving the installation rate of active and passive safety products (ESP's installation rate has risen from 0 to 60% now). 'ESP can reduce the number of accidents caused by highway rollover by 80% (based on NCAP results), significantly improving driving safety,' said Chen Liming.
The first automatic driving system supplier
For the past five years, Bosch has actively promoted and assembled Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) to Chinese OEMs, including such functions as lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, etc. Chen Liming told reporters that only automatic emergency For example, the braking function can effectively reduce 60% of rear-end accidents and 25% of pedestrian collision accidents.
In recent years, Bosch has actively introduced advanced technologies and products related to vehicle safety to the Chinese market and promoted it to provide system solutions for almost all its own-brand vehicles. By helping enterprises to launch the latest and competitive products, they can boost their own-brand vehicles Enterprises to enhance the competitiveness of products.Chen Liming told reporters: 'In 2016, we developed for the Geely Bo Yue compact multi-function camera, is the representative of the localization of research and development, but also won the' Innovation Award. '
In recent years, the Bosch Chassis Control System has innovated and developed the active and passive safety products suitable for the Chinese market with high cost performance in recent years, making it widely used in many high-end vehicles such as Wuling Hongguang and Changan Benben. The basic mission of Bosch to provide 'safe, comfortable, automatic driving' for everyone.
In addition, the Bosch Chassis Control System has also maintained good cooperation with a number of non-governmental organizations, such as the China Automotive Research Association, the China Automotive Association, the SAE, etc., and supports the development of industry standards and rules for active and passive car drivers.
A strong local R & D team
In the Chinese automotive industry, Bosch's team's R & D strength is legendary.
'Our team is stable and enthusiastic, on time and by volume to help customers improve product sales in the local market.' Chen Liming told reporters that China's Bosch chassis control system has a strong R & D team, and research and development of the depth of localization. According to him Introduction, the Bosch Group in China set up the Bosch Chassis Control System China R & D center to persuade Bosch headquarters to achieve product development and hardware and software development localization, so that all customer projects hardware and software design, application and release were completed in China, so that local teams have Ability to develop to meet the needs of China's automobile industry, and meet the needs of the domestic OEM product development time.China's R & D team at Bosch Chassis Control Systems, is recognized as the most capable R & D team in the automotive field.
Autonomous driving requires support from other driver assistance technologies that address key issues such as systems, responsibilities, scenarios, redundancy, etc. It is reported that currently in China, the Bosch Level 1 to Level 3 autopilot technical team has about 300 engineers covering hardware , Software and application development and other fields.
Time shuttle, the reporter followed Chen Liming back to the 1990s, he said: 'I joined Bosch in the United States in 1995, responsible for leading the development of traction control systems and ABS systems, during which I did a lot of vehicle projects.' In the technology In the years of research and development, as an authoritative expert in Bosch's electronic traction control, Chen Liming led the development of the eighth generation of Bosch's electronic traction control system algorithm and successfully applied to many major European, American and Japanese models. Due to its excellent software architecture and excellent performance, The algorithm is further used in Bosch's latest generation of ESP9.3, which says: "It's not just a thorough understanding of the technology itself, but also its deep insight into the impact that technology has and the way it's going in the future."
In 2004, Chen Liming was sent back to China to set up a technical team, build an R & D center and a testing ground in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, so as to deeply localize the relevant technologies of the chassis system of Bosch. "Through these years, we have tried our best to make Bosch Germany's technology Permission was released to China. "He laments.
In 2011, Chen Liming worked in Bosch Germany for one year and returned to China in 2012 to take charge of the chassis control business in China.
It is reported that China's Bosch chassis control system to maintain double-digit annual growth.Chen Liming told reporters: 'Our investment in infrastructure is growing, such as in Yakeshi and the East China Sea were invested in the establishment of winter and summer professional vehicles Test field.
'The autopilot system is very complicated and unimaginable.' This was repeatedly emphasized by Chen Liming during the interview.At present all of the autopilot technology products except the braking system can accomplish the L3-L5 technology, and other technologies have not been achieved Production stages Bosch L3 and L4 autonomous driving technologies are under development and testing, but the deployment of these businesses will point the way forward to the development of the chassis control system at Bosch.