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Recently, the reporter of China Auto News witnessed the public road test of the first “Smart Valet Parking†project jointly developed by China's independent team in Shanghai Auto Innovation Port. After seeing a driverless car complete a series of actions such as turning, downhill, parking, etc., the reporter saw the possibility that the automatic parking technology first achieved mass production.
â– Public display of preliminary research and development The unmanned vehicle for public road test is a modified Chery eQ1. The most obvious change is the installation of a Velodyne 16-line laser radar on the roof. As one of the project partners, Yu Yinan, head of Horizon Autopilot, said: "Since the road test has restricted the test site, a 16-line laser radar is sufficient to meet the vehicle's perception decision requirements, but in the future trial operation, A fusion solution for lidar, millimeter wave radar, ultrasonic radar and vision sensors is required."
During the test ride, the sky began to rain and the ground became slippery, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the test. At the scene, after the staff pressed the parking instruction on the mobile APP, the Chery eQ1 was started and proceeded at a speed of 5~7 km/h. After two turns, it went downhill into the underground garage and the speed remained at 1. ~5 km/h. Due to the steep slope, the vehicle will brake urgently according to the situation. Although it affects the ride experience, considering the project is grounded, it is itself an unmanned car. This deficiency is not necessary. After entering the parking lot, the vehicle automatically selects a parking space. When the parking space is selected, the ground lock automatically pops open. This miniature electric vehicle stops perfectly in the middle of the parking space. During the road test, a staff member was sitting in the driver's seat, but did not participate in vehicle control at all.
It is understood that the vehicles in the "Smart Valet Parking" project are currently unable to identify and avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and objects on the road. In this regard, Yu Yinan said: "The results of the demonstration are the initial prototype system completed in 8 months. We are in the second phase of planning. After the project is completed, the vehicle will be able to cooperate in multiple vehicles in a complex traffic environment. The fastest 2018 Realized in the year." Xu Jian, Executive General Manager of Shanghai International Automobile City Development Co., Ltd. said: "We will first expand cooperation with more vehicle companies to expand the size of vehicles and fleets, and propose more versatile vehicle-end solutions; More application scenarios will be added, and the environment-side transformation technology will be solidified to form a parking lot standard suitable for unmanned parking. The vehicle scheduling control will be optimized again, and the operational efficiency will be improved through cloud platform and big data decision-making to help customers better. Solve parking pain points and provide smart city solutions for cities and communities."
â– Open deep cross-border cooperation It is well known that the development and application of autonomous driving is generally a big project of “burning moneyâ€. Unlike traditional automobile manufacturing, solving the problem of future travel is not solely due to the fact that the car company or the technology company can do it alone. This poses an unprecedented challenge to the automotive industry, especially the Chinese automotive industry. From this perspective, the value of the “Smart Valet Parking†project goes beyond technology development and commercialization itself.
According to reports, the project was initiated and responsible for the overall coordination of the Automotive Innovation Port (Shanghai International Automobile City Development Co., Ltd., responsible for the unified planning, development and investment promotion of the core area of ​​the automobile city), Chery New Energy, Horizon, Tongji University, Jilin University and Shanghai Yi Drive, Yilian Technology and APICloud participated in the six teams. Among them, Chery New Energy provides the vehicle eQ1 involved in the project; the Hugo autopilot processor developed by Horizon is the “brain†of the “smart valet parking†vehicle; the two teams of Jilin University and Yizhan Intelligent are responsible for the chassis of the car. Control transformation, which is equivalent to the "crumulus" of the car, can replace the human hand and foot to complete the steering, acceleration and braking, and achieve anthropomorphic operation; Tongji University Transportation Engineering team to transform the parking lot and other infrastructure Including a center and vehicle control, high-precision positioning, communication network and other four platforms to ensure that the vehicle can find the parking space in the parking lot; APICloud designed the vehicle parking pickup APP; and in order to achieve a better user experience, Yilian Technology has added wireless charging capabilities to the project.
On the day of road test, Shanghai International Automobile City, Automobile·Innovation Port, Intelligent Networked Automotive Industry Technology Joint Innovation Center and China Automotive Innovation Incubator Alliance also jointly released the “Star Planâ€, which will focus on policy subsidies, R&D and testing space, Integrate resources such as commercial landing platforms, support the demonstration and application of new technologies and new models in the automotive field, and strive to create a vigorous and innovative format for the “new four†of the automobile industry. Their plan is to invest 200 million yuan in five years, select 100 intelligent network projects to help them develop and land, "smart valet parking" is one of them.
■Facing the opportunity and facing challenges at the “Smart Valet Parking†public road test conference, Xu Jian said that the “Smart Valet Parking†project has firmly grasped the pain points of the last mile of urban traffic. It is a smart driving scene that the industry is optimistic about. It not only solves the problem of parking difficulties for the users, but also greatly improves the efficiency of the parking lot and city management. It can be described as a double-edged sculpture. Du Yuchuan, deputy dean of the School of Transportation and Engineering, Tongji University, added: "The parking area of ​​most parking lots is now about 32~40 square meters. After using the automatic parking technology, the vehicles can be parked without opening and closing the door. Reduce the unit parking area, and also use the narrow passages that were previously inconvenient to stop, greatly improving the parking lot utilization rate, currently estimated to be 15% to 20%." As for the cost, he said that the basic construction with the parking lot Compared with the cost, the cost of information transformation is very low.
The industry generally believes that the automatic parking system will start from shared travel. The reason why the "smart valet parking" project chooses Chery eQ1 is also the same consideration. Ni Shaoyong, president of Chery New Energy Automobile Research Institute, said: "Chery New Energy is currently It is working with a number of shared travel companies, including eQ1 for a variety of scenarios, and automatic parking is one of them."
Although the prospects are good, there are still many problems in the automatic parking to achieve the landing. First of all, it is a serious challenge to transform countless parking lots across the country. How to better allocate parking spaces is also worth studying. Secondly, the cost of the early stage of technology commercialization is also a problem. Can these two aspects be marketed? Acceptance is still unknown. At the same time, relevant parties must also ensure the safety of the vehicle network, avoiding information leakage and the situation in which the vehicle in the movie "Speed ​​and Passion 8" is manipulated by hackers.