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One of the world's leading technology exhibitions, the Autonomous Vehicle TECHNOLOGY exhibition for driverless technology vehicles opened on May 21 in Stuttgart, Germany, with approximately 1,000 professional driverless technology companies participating.

One of the world's leading technology exhibitions, the Autonomous Vehicle TECHNOLOGY exhibition for driverless vehicles opened on May 21 in Stuttgart, Germany, with approximately 1,000 professional driverless technology companies participating.

The Autonomous Vehicle TECHNOLOGY exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, is an international event showcasing autonomous vehicle technology and services. It is unique because it focuses solely on the display, discussion, and development of everything needed for smart vehicles, from autonomous driving software, sensors, and communication systems to the wheels of autonomous vehicles and the complete autonomous driving systems.

According to on-site reporters, the participating driverless companies are mainly from Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with only one Chinese driverless company participating—Huan Yu Zhi Xing. Huan Yu Zhi Xing is a well-known technology innovation unicorn in the domestic driverless industry. It has been developing driverless vehicle technology since 2014, focusing on driverless solutions, products, and technical services, mainly applied in areas such as Internet + smart transportation, 5G smart transportation networks, and high-reliability autonomous driving platforms. At the same time, it independently develops autonomous driving controllers, focusing on the main battlefield of L3 and L4 level autonomous driving; it adopts a soft and hard combination approach to build autonomous driving systems, leveraging its first-mover advantage and technical accumulation. In 2018, it launched the Titan3 + Athena integrated hardware and software complete autonomous driving system. On-site, we saw the operational status of the Titan3 controller and Athena software.

The Titan3 autonomous driving controller uses four TX2 units, has strong computing power, high integration, small size, and a power consumption of 60W, supporting 12 channels of cameras (simultaneously running 9 channels of deep learning vision), 2 channels of 40-line + 4 channels of 16-line LiDAR point cloud processing, etc. The architecture design of this controller aims to ensure high safety and high performance, meeting L4 level autonomous driving requirements, specifically targeting OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and autonomous driving companies, providing them with reliable, stable, and high-computing power hardware platform support. The ATHENA system running on it is an autonomous driving software system independently developed by Huan Yu Zhi Xing, based on real-time Linux, used for high-precision mapping, OTA, interaction, perception, decision planning, precise vehicle control, platform management, and other functions, capable of real-time perception, positioning, fusion, decision-making, planning, and control algorithms. At the same time, the TITAN series autonomous driving controllers can be equipped with Baidu Apollo 2.5 or 3.0 systems.

It is understood that Huan Yu Zhi Xing will release the new TITAN 4 autonomous driving controller in June 2019, which will use NVIDIA's latest Xavier chip. Xavier has passed ISO26262 verification, providing authoritative evaluation for the functional safety of road vehicle systems, hardware, and software. This also indicates that TITAN 4 will meet automotive-grade standards and will be synchronized with the version provided by NVIDIA to Mercedes for driverless taxis, offering higher processing capabilities, capable of running 300 trillion calculations per second, while reducing power consumption, achieving several times the energy efficiency of the previous generation controller.

At the same time, in 2019, Huan Yu Zhi Xing is committed to the research and testing of 5G driverless commercial vehicles. As of now, the Huan Yu driverless commercial vehicles have completed functions such as following a vehicle to start, low-speed ACC, congestion mode, high-speed ACC, autonomous overtaking, AEB after social vehicle cut-in, two-vehicle platooning autonomous driving, and single-vehicle autonomous driving, achieving a mode where there is a human present but no need for takeover throughout the entire driving process.