In the US Silicon Valley on the other side of the ocean, Baidu Apollo once again kicked a 'world wave' to overseas developers. On August 2, US time, Baidu held the 'Apollo 3.0 Meetup' technology sharing at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. In this technically full museum, Baidu explained to the overseas developers and partners the Apollo open platform's 'strongest version' Apollo 3.0, showing the initiatives and achievements in promoting the automatic driving production. It is reported that Baidu released the Apollo 3.0 version in July this year, opening up the mass production park to drive automatically, and entering the new starting point of the open source production.
Guests from companies and institutions such as NVIDIA, NXP, NovAtel, Onsemi, Renesas, Uhnder, Velodyne LiDAR7, AutonomouStuff, San Jose State University, University of Nevada, 600 worldwide 2. The engineers smashed the scene and exchanged views on the development of the autonomous driving industry.
Dr. Zhang Yaqin, President of Baidu, gave a speech
Dr. Zhang Yaqin, President of Baidu, said in his opening speech: 'Apollo users have spread across five continents and received a response from global developers and partners. Over the past year, Apollo has opened up 220,000 lines of code and 119 partners. It has been recommended by more than 10,000 global developers. 'Technology without borders, open and win the future', artificial intelligence, autopilot technology has no geographical and industrial boundaries, we need open cooperation between all parties to accelerate the real era of autonomous driving Arrival. '
Wang Jingao, head of Apollo platform research and development, introduced the progress of Apollo platform
Apollo 3.0, the head of R&D at Apollo, introduced that Apollo 3.0 has been upgraded in terms of technology, architecture, and solutions to meet the mass production needs of more developers. Currently, Apollo 3.0 provides unattended operation. Microcar, Valet Parking, Minibus, Apollo IOV OS, four automatic driving production solutions, helping partners to build for up to three months Own 'Apolon'. In addition, Wang Jingao also announced that the 'Apollo Automated Driving Getting Started' course, which was jointly developed by Baidu team and Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology education platform Udacity, was officially launched in early July. Open. It is understood that the course has been hotly sought after, and in just 4 weeks, the number of visitors has exceeded 100,000, the proportion of overseas students is 37%, the satisfaction of the course is over 85%, and it helps about 7000 in nearly 100 countries around the world. The students started the autopilot and the Apollo open source platform, becoming a 'net red course' with both popularity and word of mouth.
Apollo platform senior architect Yan Jingwei introduces Apollo3.0 software capabilities
At the scene, Apollo platform senior architect Fu Jingyi also explained the software capabilities of Apollo3.0. According to Miao Jingyu, Apollo 3.0 version has opened up seven new capabilities, including perceptual algorithms, planning algorithms, control schemes, mass production security monitoring, HMI debugging tools, mass production developer interface, developers share relative maps, etc. In addition, he once again stressed that security is always the first principle of Baidu Apollo. On April 27 this year, Baidu became China's first technology company to obtain ISO26262 certification.
Helen Pan, Hardware Director, Baidu Smart Driving Group
In addition to open source upgrades in software, the open technology framework of the Apollo platform has also been fully upgraded. The previous hardware reference platform was upgraded to a hardware development platform, accessing 15 hardware partners, and an intelligent hardware integration solution will be provided in the future to meet development. Different levels of hardware requirements. Helen Pan, Baidu Smart Driving Group Hardware Director, explained the hardware development platform. According to her, Apollo's Apollo sensor unit released in July is now available for pre-sale, which can make a variety of products in Apollo. Plug-and-play is implemented on the platform. In addition, the upgraded hardware development platform adds an underlying software abstraction layer that seamlessly connects the upper-layer software and device drivers to accelerate technological innovation. Apollo's previous vehicle reference platform was upgraded to open vehicle certification. Platform, OEMs can complete vehicle certification in three steps. Finally, Helen Pan invites NVIDIA, NXP, NovAtel, Onsemi, Renesas, Uhnder, Velodyne LiDAR7 Apollo platform hardware partners I went to the stage to share.
Apollo developers share the exchange on the spot
It is reported that at the Baidu AI Developers Conference in July this year, Baidu and Jinlong Bus launched the world's first L4-class mass production auto-driving bus 'Apolon', which has been offline in batches, marking the new mass production of Apollo open platform. Time. The newly upgraded Apollo 3.0 is equally empowering every developer. On-site, Dr. Wolfgang Juchmann, vice president of global sales and business at AutonomouStuff, shared how to rebuild autonomous cars in a few days with Apollo's open source code. Story. In addition to highly efficient start-ups, the Apollo platform is also helping to nurture global autonomous driving talent. Professors from the University of Nevada's Reno campus say Apollo provides a common platform for students, where developers only need to focus on Study the modules you are good at, without having to bother with all the details about an autonomous car. A professor from San Jose State University said that San Jose State University is working with Apollo engineers to use the Apollo open platform to advance the apex project ( Capstone Project) and master's degree project research, for rapid development of automatic
On-site developers are actively active
Apollo's 'World Wave' is radiating to the world. Currently, Apollo's open platform has launched a global strategy, will set up branches in the United States, Singapore, accelerate the expansion of overseas 'friends', through strong cooperation with the world's top autopilot , actively promote the commercial popularity of global autonomous driving.