First auto maker to implement Lidar technology
in 2021 production models
Xpeng Inc. (“Xpeng” or the “Company”, NYSE: XPEV), a leading
Chinese smart electric vehicle (“Smart EV”) company, today
announced its next-generation autonomous driving architecture at
Auto Guangzhou 2020.
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Xpeng has significantly upgraded its autonomous driving software
and hardware systems for the 2021 production models. The Company
has become the first car manufacturer to adopt Lidar (laser for
imaging, detection and ranging) as a new hardware component for its
next-generation autonomous driving architecture, significantly
improving the vehicle’s high-precision object recognition
performance.
“Introducing Lidar technology into production vehicles is a
breakthrough in popularizing autonomous driving, and an endorsement
of our in-house R&D process. Our customers will benefit from
this premium advanced technology, which makes autonomous driving
more driver-friendly, safe and effective,” said He Xiaopeng,
Chairman & CEO of Xpeng.
The new hardware architecture is a combination of
high-definition (HD) cameras, millimeter-wave radars, ultrasonic
sensors, Lidar, high-precision positioning and mapping systems, all
powered by a high-performance computing platform. Equipped with a
total of 32 sensors, the system provides the strongest hardware
redundancy, effectively avoiding single-system failure to deliver
enhanced safety protection. It will also cover more usage
scenarios, effectively enabling Xpeng vehicles to perform low-speed
Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) functions for city driving.
The software architecture is based on a full-stack of
in-house-developed technologies, consisting of multiple modules:
perception, behavior planning, behavior/motion prediction and map
fusion, among others, forming a fully closed loop of data and
algorithms to support rapid functional iteration.
This next-generation autonomous driving architecture will
deliver major enhancements, including:
Enhanced integrated control unit
The XPU autonomous driving intelligent control unit integrates
vehicle control and parking functions, making decision-making and
execution more efficient. At the same time, by streamlining the
number of controllers and wiring harnesses, the weight of the
system is reduced.
Improved high-precision positioning
The real-time kinematic (RTK) terminal is upgraded from 4G to
5G, supporting precise positioning with high-precision maps for
high-speed roads as well as urban roads. A new positioning scheme
(IMU+GNSS+RTK (5G) with high-precision maps for both highways and
city roads is adopted to achieve centimeter-level accuracy. With
pinpoint positioning, latency reduced to milliseconds, and a
driving scenario coverage rate of over 97.5%, the scheme provides
high robustness, covering a wide range of terrain, high-rise
buildings and underground parking-lot occlusion scenarios.
Enhanced perception fusion
The adoption of Lidar technology will significantly improve the
accuracy of horizontal and vertical position identification, and
spatial resolution (super high resolution <0.1°), while offering
a perception capability that is unaffected by ambient light.
Through the fusion of vision + millimeter wave radar + ultrasonic
sensor + Lidar, the system’s performance in target detection and
measurement resolution, is significantly improved even in scenarios
without sufficient lighting, delivering near-perfect perception
performance.
Computing power to increase
The high-performance computing platform will also be
significantly upgraded from 30 TOPS to over 200 TOPS in the future,
delivering a nearly tenfold increase in computing power from ten
trillion times per second to several hundred trillion times per
second. The system is designed with the capacity to further
increase computing power, supporting the implementation of even
higher-level autonomous driving functions.
The next-generation autonomous driving architecture will achieve
an advanced level of navigation-guided autonomous driving, with
wide coverage of different road conditions, low manual takeover
rates, and longer continuous autonomous driving times. The new
system also covers multiple weather conditions and situations for
city and highway driving, including urban congestion, expressways,
underground parking lots, toll gates, tunnels and night driving
conditions.
About XPeng
XPeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV) is a leading Chinese smart electric
vehicle company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets
Smart EVs that appeal to the large and growing base of
technology-savvy middle-class consumers in China. Its mission is to
drive Smart EV transformation with technology and data, shaping the
mobility experience of the future. In order to optimize its
customers’ mobility experience, XPeng develops in-house its
full-stack autonomous driving technology and in-car intelligent
operating system, as well as core vehicle systems including
powertrain and the electrification/electronic architecture. XPeng
is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, with offices in Beijing,
Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and San Diego. The Company’s Smart EVs
are manufactured at plants in Zhaoqing and Zhengzhou, located in
Guangdong and Henan provinces, respectively. For more information,
please visit https://en.xiaopeng.com.
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