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vehicle stuff (official account: chedongxi) Wen Origin in the early morning of January 9, Beijing time and 10:30-12:00 a.m. in Las Vegas, China's Internet giant Baidu once again demonstrated its self driving strength to the world through a press conference on CES. In the United States, where autonomous driving companies are clustered, Baidu has released the strongest version of Apollo, and Baidu unmanned vehicle has become an old driver shuttling through American cities. Apollo autopilot technology framework ushered in the largest upgrade in history, software and hardware comprehensive update. Finally, baidu also released the automatic driving commercialization kill move - Apollo enterprise version, in response to Google's unmanned taxi commercialization progress. First hand report from the front. Baidu's CES Apollo conference this year was hosted by Zhang Yaqin, President of Baidu. Zhang Yaqin has been in charge of the automatic driving business and has put a lot of energy into it. Obviously, self driving is one of Baidu's most important businesses. Baidu president Zhang Yaqin as an open source project, there is an unwritten rule at the beginning of the Apollo conference, that is, to show the new progress of the developer community first. Baidu Apollo platform R & D director Wang Jingao introduced that ApolloAt present, it is the most active automatic driving development platform in the world. How active are you? At present, there are 390000 codes on the platform, 12000 developers have recommended, more than 130 ecological partners, and more than 15000 developers from 97 countries around the world have joined the Apollo autopilot open source project. In the witness of many developers, baidu Apollo came to version 3.5 today. Wang Jingao throws out a PPT that says - Apollo 3.5 is the strongest version of Apollo ever. In terms of a measurable data, the MPD of its automatic driving test vehicle (mileage per manual intervention) has increased 9 times to 1400 miles. This figure exceeds that of most automatic driving companies. It also surpassed the previous performance of GM cruise, the second largest in the auto driving industry. In the 2017 report of the California motor vehicle administration, the MPD value of general cruise is 1254. Obviously, Baidu has made leaps and bounds in automatic driving, and the ability of Apollo 3.5 has also ushered in an explosion. With the support of Apollo 3.5, Baidu's open-source automatic driving function will unlock the ability to drive in complex urban areas for the first time. The city's narrow roads, changeable traffic signs, speed bumps, right turn junctions, cars parked on the roadside... All kinds of complex scenes, equipped with Apollo 3.5 automatic drivingThe car can deal with it, and can change lanes by itself, just like an "old driver". After integrating the high-speed automatic driving ability and low-speed automatic driving ability supported by previous versions of Apollo, Baidu has built "the world's first closed-loop solution of automatic driving logistics" with Apollo 3.5, which means logistics. In theory, baidu Apollo's solution can support the whole process of automatic driving from transportation to delivery. Baidu also through an unmanned car relay across the ocean Express demonstration to illustrate its strength. It is said that the effect is not good until Cold Sparkler Fountain the partner has used it. Daniel and CTO, CEO of udelv, baidu Apollo's newest partner, told the story of their cooperation with Apollo. Udelv is a self driving start-up company that is active in delivery scenarios at the end of logistics. Its self driving vehicles have delivered more than 1000 goods in the San Francisco Bay area. Most of the scenes are complex urban roads, which is where Apollo 3.5 is used. Daniel said that the application of Baidu Apollo 3.5 results can enable udelv to focus its research and development on various scenarios encountered during delivery, which reduces some technical work and substantially accelerates the commercialization of udelv's automatic driving. After reaching a cooperation with Baidu, it carries the ude of Apollo 3.5 versionLV self driving van will be put into operation in Induction Wok Cooker blue part in the figure is the module upgraded by Apollo 3.5 1. Hardware: the sensor has been fully upgraded, and two new units have been added. Helen, head of Baidu automatic driving hardware, explained the evolution of Apollo 3.5 in the automatic driving hardware. As can be seen from the above figure, the automatic driving sensors of Apollo 3.5, including camera, lidar, millimeter wave radar and GPS / IMU unit, have been upgraded to 1For the luxury configuration of 128 lines + 3 16 lines, the number of vehicle mounted cameras has been increased to 10, the millimeter wave radar has added the extended support for the backward radar, and the GNSS antenna has been increased to two. This set of upgraded sensors can ensure that the detection range of Apollo 3.5 automatic driving vehicle covers a range of 300 meters, and has the ability to distinguish direction when the vehicle is stationary (GNSS dual antenna function). The Apollo 3.5 computing platform is also upgraded to an extensible architecture to meet the computing acceleration requirements of autopilot research and development. In this regard, Baidu has launched a new Apollo extension unit - aXu, which can provide automatic driving with calculation acceleration, data analysis and other functions. It is worth mentioning that it is pluggable. Another new hardware unit in Apollo 3.5 framework is v2x OBU, which supports lte-v2x and DSRC v2x communication standards, and is the key basic hardware for realizing vehicle road cooperation. Since last year, Baidu has increased the investment in vehicle road coordination, and the vehicle road coordination technology itself can reduce the perception and calculation burden of autonomous vehicles. 2. Software: the automatic driving algorithm is fully upgraded in addition to the hardware, the software of Apollo 3.5 has also been greatly updated. It can be seen that the positioning, planning, prediction and perception algorithms, which are crucial to automatic driving, have been upgraded. Scene manager and scene classifier are added to the planning and prediction module——The scene manager makes it more extensible and flexible for developers to import scene training. The scene classifier will call different deep learning models according to different traffic scenes to enhance the ability of autonomous vehicles to cope with different scenarios. In terms of sensing module, Apollo 3.5 strengthens the support for multi-sensor fusion and algorithm, in a word, the software update of Apollo 3.5 saves some time for the auto driving developers to build wheels. However, this is not enough. The ultimate weapon for Baidu's autopilot software to benefit developers has also been released on Apollo 3.5, which is cyber RT. 3. Cyber RT -- an accelerator for automatic driving development Baidu values cyber RT so much that it is explained by Qu Ning, chief architect of Apollo open platform, as a separate part. Qu Ning said that automatic driving has a strong demand for high performance and robustness of computing. In order to meet this demand, Baidu has put a packaged computing framework, Apollo cyber RT, into Apollo's software platform on the basis of its years of experience in developing automatic driving. With it, developers do not need to design their own computing task interface to do data fusion, because the platform has been built-in. In this way, the autopilot developers on the Apollo platform can focus more on the development of core algorithms. CyberIn fact, the properties of RT are similar to tensor RT of NVIDIA. Tensor RT is a deep learning support engine specially built by NVIDIA, which can help the deep learning algorithm to be rapidly deployed after training. It has been highly praised by the developers of deep learning algorithm after its launch. Baidu's cyber RT, on the other hand, can help autopilot developers integrate, deploy and test autopilot algorithms more quickly and easily. It is equivalent to tensor RT in the field of autopilot, which is born to accelerate the development of autopilot. It can be said that the launch of cyber RT in Baidu Apollo 3.5 has lowered the threshold of automatic driving development by a large part. Baidu plays an important role in providing development tool chain. If cyber RT is free to use, then Apollo's 10000 plus community developers should be happy with cyberrt. In addition, Apollo 3.5 has updated the autopilot simulator on the cloud service platform. Wang Jingao mentioned that Apollo's new autopilot simulator has increased the number of driving environment simulations by 10 times and added 20 new functions. The powerful simulation test can be used as an effective supplement to the automatic driving test. 90% of the development of Apollo 3.5 is driven by the simulator. At the same time, baidu attaches great importance to the vehicle road coordination function, Apollo's support for v2x roadside equipment has also been placed on the cloud platform. MayIn other words, after a comprehensive upgrade of 14 modules, Apollo 3.5 has taken on a new look. The whole framework is more developer friendly, and the difficulty of transforming technology into productivity is reduced again. And to transform technology into productivity and products is also the new focus of Baidu's CES Apollo conference. After the technical explanation of Apollo 3.5, Shang Guobin, general manager of integrated management department and Cooperative Development Department of Baidu intelligent driving business group, came to the stage to announce that Baidu officially launched "the world's first most comprehensive business solution in the field of automatic driving and Internet of vehicles" - Apollo enterprise / Apollo enterprise version on the basis of Apollo 3.5.    Unlike Apollo open platform, which is based on the open source nature of community-based developers to jointly develop autopilot technology, Apollo enterprise edition has five major businesses directly oriented to commercialization in three major fields. In the field of Internet of vehicles, baidu provides a small-scale vehicle system with complete interaction mode and content ecology, which is mainly supplied to the host plants with the demand of intelligent transformation of vehicle system. In the field of automatic driving, Apollo enterprise provides three solutions: automatic driving in high-speed scenes, automatic parking and automatic driving of minibuses. Different from the development version, the three solutions are all oriented to mass production, and the software and hardware will meet the requirements of vehicle regulations. In the field of map, Apollo Enterprise Edition provides high-precision data services, including vehicle map, ADAS map and high-precision map. Apollo's open platform is free, while Apollo's Enterprise Edition charges. Why should an autopilot program derived from an open source project be charged? Baidu has given four highlights of Apollo enterprise version: 1. Fast landing       the software and hardware of Apollo enterprise version all meet the vehicle regulation standards, which can help customers to land faster. For example, the project of Internet of vehicles only takes three months from the start to the landing. 2. Cost controllable Apollo Enterprise Edition will customize and develop the automatic driving function, hardware and software according to the different needs of customers, so as to ensure that the cost of the same level is controllable and the value is optimal. 3. Overall security the software and hardware of Apollo enterprise edition are designed with safety redundancy to meet the functional safety requirements, so that the automatic driving vehicle can be safely on the road; at the same time, in terms of information security, Baidu has a special team to provide security and security monitoring. 4. AI leads Baidu provides more than 140 scenario based AI capabilities and solutions, so that Apollo enterprise customers can have leading competitiveness in automatic driving and car Internet. It needs to be mentioned that this is the first time Baidu Apollo jumped out of the nature of the open source platform and specifically described its own commercial business. In Baidu's internal view, Apollo enterprise version is now launched, is the time to mature. On the one hand, under the commitment of "realizing automatic driving by 2020 and 2021", many automobile enterprises hope to have an automatic driver who meets the vehicle regulations and can be mass-producedOn the other hand, in the past two years, Baidu has learned a lot about the technology and experience of many car terminals in the process of dealing with car companies. Compared with the previous version, Apollo 3.5 has made great progress in the realization of automatic driving function, providing a technical basis for mass production. One side has demand, the other side can supply, Apollo enterprise version came into being. Apollo Enterprise Edition is aimed at car companies, suppliers and travel service providers. However, it is not difficult to see from the current five major business and four highlights of Apollo enterprise edition that the main customers it aims at are various car factories. The data provided by Baidu also proves this point - in the next 2-3 years, Apollo enterprise version will realize mass production and get on the bus with customers including Ford, Chery, BYD, Hyundai, great wall, Weima, Kia and FAW. Apollo enterprise version won 8 car enterprise customers, Baidu's killing device on the commercialization of automatic driving has finally come out. Among them, Weima and Baidu have reached a long-term partnership on L3 and L4 level automatic driving, and the L3 high-speed automatic driving scheme will be mass produced in 2021. Weima carried part of Baidu's ex 5 exhibition car with automatic driving function, which also appeared on the CES. Baidu Apollo enterprise version released as soon as the Apollo enterprise version was released, Baidu's automatic driving really wanted to make money. Recall feeling far away, but at this time from the establishment of Baidu Apollo, less than two years, from the last Apollo 3The press conference of. 0 has just been less than half a year ago. Just a year ago, the voice of questioning whether Baidu automatic driving can be mass produced was still in the ear. A year later, baidu Apollo enterprise version responded to the query with orders from at least eight auto companies. A year ago, there were also many people who questioned the real ability of Baidu's automatic driving. A year later, baidu used the largest historical upgrade of Apollo 3.5 to meet the technical challenges of automatic driving. On the one hand, it launched the strongest Apollo 3.5 in history, on the other hand, it launched Apollo Enterprise Edition. Technology and business, Baidu's automatic driving is two wheel drive, the speed of forward is obviously faster than before. At the moment when autopilot calls for landing, a series of releases of Apollo 3.5 on CES can be said to be a high score report card handed over by Baidu automatic driving team.