2018 February 15, Apollo unmanned vehicle was unveiled at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in Zhuhai, Guangdong, 2065 438+08. In the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Evening, more than 100 Apollo unmanned vehicles crossed the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. On April 19, Baidu Apollo open platform officially released Apollo version 2.5. 165438+1October 7th, the Apollo autopilot open platform was released. 20 19 19 10 In October, Baidu announced at the 20 19CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas that Apollo Enterprise, the world's first and most comprehensive commercial solution for intelligent driving, was officially launched.
Basic introduction Chinese name: Apollo mbth: Apollo? Company: Baidu? Related fields: automobile industry and autonomous driving field? Attribute: Date of establishment of software platform: 201April 7 19 Release background, platform introduction, platform system, ecosystem, technical cooperation, core pillar, R&D process, strategic significance, release background: 201April 7 19, Baidu once again demonstrated. A new project named "Apollo" has been released, which provides an open, complete and safe software platform for partners in the automotive industry and autonomous driving field, and helps them to quickly build their own complete autonomous driving system by combining vehicles and hardware systems. Baidu's open plan aims to build an ecosystem with cooperation as the core, give full play to Baidu's technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence, and promote the development and popularization of autonomous driving technology. And naming this project "Apollo" is to borrow the meaning of the Apollo moon landing project. Platform Introduction Platform System Baidu's Apollo platform is a complete set of software and hardware and service system, including vehicle platform, hardware platform, software platform and cloud data service. Baidu will also open up the codes or capabilities of environmental awareness, path planning, vehicle control, vehicle operating system and other functions, and provide complete development and testing tools. At the same time, we will select the best cooperative and compatible partners in the field of vehicles and sensors, and recommend them to the third-party partners accessing the Apollo platform to further lower the research and development threshold of unmanned vehicles. Qilu, president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group, also said that Baidu opened its strongest, most mature and safest autonomous driving technology to the industry, aiming at establishing an ecosystem with cooperation as the core, giving full play to Baidu's technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence, empowering partners and promoting the development and popularization of autonomous driving technology. Ecosystem In the future, Baidu will use Baidu's core AI technology to build a strong, open and high-speed innovative new ecosystem. The Apollo program has two forms of open autopilot capability: one is open code, and the other is open capability. Qilu, president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group, said: "Openness is based on the ability that Baidu can provide through API or SDK in a standard open way. Open code is the same as traditional open source software. The code is open and everyone can use it and participate in the development together. Our openness includes important components such as perception system, path planning and vehicle control system. " According to the plan, Baidu will build a platform through artificial intelligence technology, which is not only a system software platform, but also includes using software to support existing and future automotive hardware platforms, existing and future sensors and in-vehicle operating systems, and core services. Technical cooperation At present, Baidu has established cooperative relations with many automobile companies, including Chery, BYD and BAIC. According to Qilu, the purpose of the Apollo program is to "improve and promote the innovation speed and quality of cooperative manufacturers." Using the Apollo moon landing program to build an autonomous driving platform, we can see the breakthrough and innovation that Baidu hopes, and build a platform and make a good layout in the early stage of the autonomous driving era. Qilu believes: "The partners who are cooperating with us now, our code and our core competence are invisible to them, which is a black box for them. After the Apollo project, our ability and code partners can see that it is very convenient and fast to help partners build their own autonomous driving ability. " On March 5th, 20 18, Chi Jing Science and Technology announced that it had officially joined Baidu's Apollo open platform and became an Apollo partner. The core pillar of Apollo program is artificial intelligence technology, which is also the core pillar of platform construction. If Baidu is compatible with the two attributes of the leader of high-precision maps and the platform provider of artificial intelligence technology, it is bound to be one step ahead of the arrival of the driverless era, but it will take time to test whether this expectation can be realized. The R&D process began on 20 15, and Baidu invested heavily in the development of unmanned vehicles. 20 15, 12, Beijing conducted a fully automatic driving test on expressways and urban roads. On September 20 16, the license for driving test in California was obtained. 10165438 Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province carried out the trial operation of unmanned vehicles on ordinary open roads. On July 20 17, it took the lead in opening the automatic driving capacity of closed venues, and exported the automatic driving capacity under simple urban road conditions at the end of the year. By 2020, it will be gradually opened to fully automatic driving on expressways and ordinary urban roads. 2018 65438+1On the afternoon of October 8, at the Baidu World Congress held in Las Vegas, Baidu officially launched its second-generation autopilot platform Apollo 2.0. Apollo 2.0 has the most open, complete and safest autopilot capability. 20 18 65438+1October 9th, 2018 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas officially opened. Baidu released a new version of the autopilot open software platform "Apollo 2.0" on the media day before the opening ceremony. 2018 February 15, Apollo unmanned vehicle was unveiled at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in Zhuhai, Guangdong, 2065 438+08. In the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Evening, more than 100 Apollo unmanned vehicles crossed the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. On April 9th, 2065438/KLOC-0, Baidu Apollo Open Platform officially released Apollo version 2.5. Apollo2.5 supports high-speed autonomous driving with limited regional vision and "unlocks" highway scenes. Speaking of highways, the conference showed the case of Changsha Intelligent Driving Research Institute Co., Ltd. using Apollo2.5 to quickly realize the automatic driving of heavy trucks in the highway scene. Baidu said that this means that Apollo has added new truck logistics application scenarios and once again broadened its business imagination. On July 4th, 20 18, Baidu released Apollo3.0 at the Baidu Creation 20 18 Baidu AI Developers Conference. Apollo has opened more than 220,000 lines of code, and more than 65,438+0,000 developers recommended using Apollo's open code, and the number of eco-partners reached 65,438+065,438+06. For mass production, Apollo released three sets of self-driving solutions: parking service, Mini-car and Mini-bus to help developers and partners build their own "Apollo" within three months. Based on Apollo's automatic parking solution, Baidu has cooperated with Panda to realize the first demonstration operation of self-driving cars in China, and cooperated with Hyundai Motor to launch fixed-point connection applications. In addition, the unmanned cart Neolithic AX 1 has also been mass-produced and operated in Xiong 'an and Changzhou. Auto-connected bus "Apollon" started the normal operation of four cities and five major scenes, and obtained the safety certification of Chongqing test site of National Public Transport Quality Inspection Center. Apollo3.0 also brought a smarter solution of mass production car networking system-small car OS, and released the semantic open platform for cars for the first time. Safety determines the real speed of autonomous driving mass production. On the same day, Baidu Apollo released the first safety report related to self-driving mass production in China, and cooperated with Mobileye, a world-class self-driving company, to integrate its core self-driving safety model RSS. This report is the first professional safety report for mass production of autonomous driving in China, which subdivides the scenes and functions and provides theoretical support for promoting the establishment of a unified standard for autonomous driving safety industry. Apollo also brought more diversified intelligent simulation, and launched the industry's first real-world AR simulation, which can provide a full-stack closed-loop simulation solution combining virtual traffic flow and real scene rendering, helping developers realize the simulation test of "driving one million kilometers a day". On July 8th, 2065438, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and BMW Group announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding, according to which BMW Group will join the Apollo open platform as a member of the board of directors. This indicates that BMW Group and Baidu will start another brand-new cooperation in the field of autonomous driving. Both parties will make joint efforts to bring safe, convenient and intelligent travel experience to China consumers. 2018165438+17 October, at the 5th world internet conference, Zhang Yaqin released the Apollo autopilot open platform. 20 18 12.28, the launching ceremony of Hunan Xiangjiang new area intelligent bus demonstration line and the awarding ceremony of Hunan Xiangjiang artificial intelligence research institute were held in the national intelligent networked automobile (Changsha) experimental area. During the event, Baidu Apollo self-driving full-scene vehicles appeared in the test area of the event, and completed the first collaborative demonstration of multi-vehicle high-speed scenes such as L3 and L4 in China. At the same time, the first intelligent bus demonstration line supported by Baidu Apollo was first opened to traffic. In addition, the Baidu Apollo training base of Hunan Xiangjiang Institute of Artificial Intelligence was officially unveiled. 20 19 19 10 In October, Baidu announced at the 20 19CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas that Apollo Enterprise, the world's first and most comprehensive commercial solution for intelligent driving, was officially launched. Baidu Apollo3.5 was released, which can support the automatic driving of complex urban roads, and released the world's first high-performance open source computing framework Apollo Cyber RT for automatic driving. Baidu also said that California-based driverless car manufacturer Udelv will use Apollo 3.5 software to try out as many as 65,438+000 test trucks in 2065,438+09. It is reported that Udelv, the Ford Transit automatic delivery service for city vans equipped with Apollo3.5, will start operation in Silicon Valley on 20 19. The upgrade of Apollo3.5 will realize automatic driving from simple urban roads to complex urban roads, facing more than a dozen road conditions such as narrow lanes, speed bumps, sidewalks, intersections, traffic without signal lights, and driving the wrong car. In 20 19, 100 self-driving taxis will drive on the urban road of Changsha 130 miles in Hunan, equipped with Baidu's V2X technology. This fleet will become the first batch of self-driving taxis in China, managed by Baidu's V2X system. Strategic significance This means that Baidu has taken another solid step in the system-level opening process of artificial intelligence, and it is also the first system-level opening of autonomous driving technology worldwide.