On September 17, at the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Universal Smart released the self-developed "Athena" (ATHENA) autonomous driving software. The software belongs to the domestic leading level and is compatible with 5G communication networks, which enables intelligent formation driving and will accelerate the pace of mass production of autonomous vehicles.

The "ATHENA" automatic driving software was developed by Huanyu Zhixing R&D team after 10,000 hours of development and tens of thousands of real road tests. It includes a high-precision map engine, high-precision positioning of multi-sensor fusion solutions, cloud vehicle control, and vehicle platform adaptation. A series of suites such as matching and control, vehicle learning recognition based on deep learning, automatic driving path planning software and so on. This software can help developers, car companies, and technology companies in the autopilot industry to quickly verify autopilot technology and speed up the mass production of autopilot. It is also suitable for commercial development in scenarios such as taxi cabs and heavy truck formations.

This is following the release of the third-generation "TITAN" autopilot vehicle controller in June this year, Huanyu Zhixing once again released the autopilot software suite, becoming one of the few domestic autopilot fields to provide a complete set of solutions (hardware and software) for autopilot Internet technology companies.

At the press conference, Huanyu Zhixing broadcasted the road test process of a heavy truck equipped with "Athena" autonomous driving software. At 4:00 pm on the 17th, a modified heavy truck successfully completed the start-up, line-up, acceleration, U-turn and other autonomous driving test projects in a test field of a 5G network summit in Beijing, thousands of miles away.

"Successful testing on heavy trucks indicates that the "Athena" software has the domestic leading level", Zhang Pin, the head of R&D of the "ATHENA" project of Huanyu Zhixing, introduced that heavy trucks have shorter braking distances and more blind spots due to the heavy load and size of the body The large vibration of the vehicle brings great challenges to the algorithm and perception of automatic driving, and is a recognized technical problem in the field of automatic driving applications.

Huanyu Zhixing is a "quasi-unicorn" Internet technology company in the field of domestic autonomous driving. It was established in 2014. The R&D team has 10 years of experience in autonomous driving technology research and development since 2008. At present, the autonomous driving hardware "TITAN" and the autonomous driving software suite "ATHENA" independently developed by Universal Smart have served a total of 10 well-known domestic companies; in the future, Universal Smart will develop overseas markets, including the United States, Germany and other countries, and strive to To be an enterprise that can affect China's autonomous driving industry, drive the development of the domestic autonomous driving industry, and accelerate the mass production of autonomous vehicles.