On July 11, at the Yangcheng Artificial Intelligence and Smart Mobility Summit Forum held in the Yangcheng Ecological New District (High-speed Rail New City) area of ​​Xiangcheng District, Suzhou, autonomous driving technology company Momenta announced that it plans to deploy autonomous driving on a large scale in Suzhou this year Fleet, and launch self-driving taxi operation services at the right time.
Momenta is a technology company that focuses on software algorithms to create an "autonomous driving brain". Its core technology is environment perception based on deep learning, high-precision map construction, and driving decision-making algorithms. The company's products include different levels of autonomous driving solutions, as well as derived big data products and services.
Not long ago, Momenta signed a contract to settle in the Yangcheng Ecological New District (High-speed Rail New City) area of ​​Xiangcheng District, Suzhou, and launched a comprehensive cooperation with Suzhou in the implementation of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving. According to official information, a 10-square-kilometer R&D community will be built in the Yangcheng New Ecological Zone (High-speed Rail New City). Integrated development will be carried out in the community. In the future, private cars will pass underground and the ground will introduce driverless public transportation.
Momenta chose to launch the self-driving taxi project in Suzhou precisely because of its loose policies and industrial resources. The landing scenario chosen by the company is shared travel. At first, it will use autonomous driving technology to solve the pain points of car rental and return, and then gradually upgrade the technology to provide driverless rental services.
According to official sources, within this year, Momenta will deploy a large-scale autonomous driving fleet in Suzhou to help the construction of Suzhou's smart transportation, and will launch autonomous driving fleet operation services to Suzhou citizens at a suitable time.
According to Cao Xudong, Momenta has formed autonomous driving solutions for multiple scenarios, including highway autonomous driving (limited scene L3), autonomous parking (L4) and last-mile travel.
Self-driving Demo car displayed by Momenta
Momenta showed a demo car modified based on Lincoln MKZ. According to the staff, the car supports L3 autopilot driving on highways. The car is equipped with 5 millimeter wave radars, 1 monocular camera and 1 binocular camera. In the future, the car will be equipped with a surround view sensor for a week. Rich automatic driving functions.
In a demonstration video, Momenta demonstrated its existing technical capabilities, including adaptive cruise, lane keeping, emergency overtaking processing, autonomous lane change, autonomous ramp up and down, autonomous parking, autonomous driving in rainy nights, autonomous tunnel crossing, and traffic Congestion assistance, face recognition, etc.
Cao Xudong mentioned in his speech that Momenta has gradually established three basic platforms: big data platform, big computing platform, and big test platform, relying on computing resources to process rich and massive data, and obtain more accurate and reliable algorithm models. Realize the feedback closed loop of big data and AI algorithm.
In terms of large computing platforms, Momenta is building a large-scale GPU cluster to accumulate a large amount of experience and skills in training models. As of the first quarter of 2018, Momenta has completed a computing platform containing 2000 GPUs, and will put another 2000 GPU-based computing platform in Suzhou in the future.
In terms of big data, Momenta collects real road environmental data and driving behavior data through crowdsourcing. The existing collection capabilities can achieve a monthly increase of 30% in the coverage of the city. The total number of crowdsourced vehicles is about 10,000, collecting 3 million kilometers every day. According to Cao Xudong's forecast, the total number of collection vehicles planned to be deployed in 2018 will reach about 100,000, collecting 30 million kilometers per day and 4.5 billion kilometers annually.
In terms of the big test platform, Momenta’s goal is to complete 100 billion kilometers of crowdsourced road testing. Through shadow testing, it compares the real driving behavior of the driver with the predictive behavior of the autonomous driving brain, discovering and solving unsolvable cases, and constantly Improve the safety of autonomous driving algorithms.
Momenta found the ground to land in Suzhou, and the remaining time is to wait for the technology to take root.
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