65438+February 2 1, after more than four years of polishing, Huawei officially released 96-line automotive high-performance lidar products and solutions. At the same time, ARCFOX's HBT spy photos were also exposed on the same day, and this is also the first smart electric vehicle equipped with Huawei's three lidar solutions. The core information of the radar chip is that the vehicle is equipped with three 96-line vehicle-mounted laser radars, six millimeter-wave radars, 12 cameras and 13 ultrasonic radars, and the computing power can reach 352Tops. Besides, ARCFOX The polar fox HBT will be released next year.
According to Huawei's self-report, the above lidar scheme has the following characteristics:
1, wide field of vision 120× 25, which meets the ranging requirements of people and vehicles in urban areas, expressway and other scenes.
2. In the whole field of view, the horizontal and vertical beams are evenly distributed without splicing and jitter, so forming a stable point cloud is very friendly to the back-end sensing algorithm.
3, small size, suitable for the needs of front-end production vehicles.
Automatic driving has become an important development trend of the automobile industry. For automobile enterprises, on the eve of commercialization, it is urgent for them to find a reliable and stable L4 unmanned laser radar supply source.
Based on the analysis of difficult scenes such as long-distance small obstacle scene, short-distance congestion scene, near-end protrusion scene, tunnel scene, intersection left turn scene, basement scene, etc. Huawei has designed and developed this 96-line medium and long-range lidar product: wide field of view 120× 25, which meets the ranging needs of people and vehicles in urban areas and high-speed scenes; The transverse and longitudinal harnesses are evenly distributed in the whole field of vision, without splicing and jitter.
It is understood that? The polar fox HBT equipped with three Huawei laser radars can not only handle the gantry, tunnel scene, basement scene, ECT pole lifting scene, intersection left-turning scene, near-end protrusions (such as trucks loaded with steel bars) and other scenes, but also quickly identify and judge the scenes of express delivery brother riding motorcycles and pedestrians jaywalking, bringing users a faster, smarter, more convenient and safer travel experience.
In the scene where the lidar is covered with dust, an intelligent cleaning system can be used. Huawei has done a lot of tests to verify the cleaning effect of different nozzles, different positions and different water pressures.
Because it also needs cleaning during driving, in order to test this scene well, Huawei independently designed an intelligent cleaning wind tunnel system to simulate the cleaning ability at 130km/h, just like a wiper.
In addition to the intelligent cleaning system, Huawei has also developed an intelligent heating system. In the scene covered by frost, fog, condensation and thin ice, the intelligent heating system built in the lidar will start automatically.
ARCFOX polar fox said that the requirements for vehicle classification of lidar have been solved. As a deep partner of Huawei, HBT, a new polar fox model, is the first to carry Huawei lidar.
It is understood that Huawei currently has single, double and three kinds of lidar configuration schemes. The polar fox HBT adopts Huawei's most advanced three-lidar configuration scheme, which can achieve a 300-degree viewing angle, which is better than Xiao Peng's prediction. It will carry 1-2 lidar models.
It is worth mentioning that HBT will be equipped with Huawei's "1 new computing and communication architecture", "five intelligent systems", "three computing platforms and corresponding three operating systems" and "30+ intelligent components including lidar". In order to reflect the cooperation with Huawei, there will be Huawei HI's Huawei car solution logo at the rear of the car.
According to the "Car Ring", according to the information previously disclosed by Changan, the number of laser radars it cooperates with Huawei is as high as five. Even though Tucki and Weilai have announced their cooperation with Huawei, the specific number of lidar they carry is still confidential. For other cooperative automobile enterprises, it is also confidential at present.
Then, in the face of many customers, what is the production capacity of Huawei automotive lidar?
It is understood that relying on the precision manufacturing capability and advanced technical equipment laboratory accumulated in the field of optical communication, Huawei quickly established the first pilot production line of vehicle-mounted laser radar. At present, it has been promoted according to the annual output of 65438+ 10,000 sets/line, and will further meet the demand of millions of mass production in the future. In terms of talents, according to Wang Jun, president of Huawei's smart car solution BU, Huawei has set up a photoelectric technology research center in Wu Hanyou, with a scale of more than 654.38+00000 people.
According to Yole, a consulting company, global lidar shipments will increase from 340,000 in 2020 to 4.7 million in 2025 and 23.9 million in 2030. It is estimated that the global lidar market will exceed10 billion in 2030. The decline in bicycle prices will further benefit the mass production and use of lidar.
Earlier, Wang Jun pointed out at the Blue Book Forum in August that "the technical goal of Huawei's research and development of lidar is to quickly develop 100 line lidar in a short time. In the future, it is planned to reduce the cost of lidar to $200 or even $65,438+000. "
It is understood that although Huawei's lidar can't achieve such a low cost at present, compared with the mechanical lidar with 32 lines, 64 lines or 128 lines on the market, the price is still very attractive.
At present, the laser radar production car has become a new blue ocean in the field of autonomous driving. "We are rapidly establishing the first pilot production line of the first automotive laser radar, aiming at the demand of millions of mass production. Huawei has been advancing according to the annual output of 65,438+10,000 units/line to meet the needs of future mass production. " That's what Huawei said.
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