NVIDIA and Continental together to create AI car system is expected to launch in 2021
Both parties will designate a dedicated engineering team to jointly develop a variety of autonomous driving solutions on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform that includes the world's most powerful system-on-chip NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier, NVIDIA DRIVE OS and DRIVE AV (self-driving) Software stack.
In addition to using Continental's experience as the highest system design safety standard, ASIL-D, to develop safety systems and software engineering, the autopilot system will also incorporate a variety of sensor technologies including radar, video cameras and high-resolution 3D optical technology.
Dr. Elmar Degenhart, CEO of Continental, said: "The future of cars will evolve into a direct loading of vehicles into vehicles for sensing, planning and autonomous response functions.Automotive driving involves as much complexity as the AI supercomputer Computing, and the efficacy and flexibility of the NVIDIA AI Autopilot solution cover everything from the cloud to the vehicle, giving us the security, comfort and personal design we need to take this one step to the next level. "
Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, said: "We are now converting R & D of self-driving technology to mass production and following the principle of safety first. The open and scalable NVIDIA DRIVE platform will help Continental achieve its vision of bringing wisdom Technology introduces production cars of all automated driving levels. "
NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier, the brain of the Continental system, delivers depth-learning up to 30 TOPS (megascopy per second) at a power consumption of only 30 W. It is precisely because of this unprecedented performance that In response to the huge amount of data that must be processed to operate a self-drive vehicle, it includes the implementation of various deep neural networks to sense the surrounding environment, understand the environment, locate on high-resolution maps, predict the behavior and location of other objects, and calculate vehicle dynamics Learn and plan safe driving routes.
NVIDIA and Continental will initially develop a variety of highly automated driving functions, including 360-degree sensing, automatic lane change and vehicle speed with adjacent vehicles. In addition, the system will integrate high-resolution maps, allowing vehicles to position and map themselves Capital update.
Continental's expertise in advanced driver assistance systems incorporates a multi-function camera, a panoramic fisheye camera, short-range and long-range radar sensors, a high-resolution 3D optical technology and a central control unit that controls assist and autopilot functions In 2016, Continental 's advanced driver assistance system sold over 1.2 billion euros and is expected to grow to 2.5 billion euros by 2020.
Luca De Ambroggi, director of research and analytics at IHS Markit, said: "The collaboration with NVIDIA will allow Continental to extend its lead beyond the advanced driver assistance system to include new features from today's New Car Safety Assessment Association (NCAP) To Level 5 autonomous driving autonomous driving and full-autopilot system. "