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Chedongxi reported on September 25 that today, Huawei held the Huawei Smart Car Solution Ecological Forum in Beijing. At the meeting, Huawei focused on introducing its thinking and progress in intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and Huawei cloud services.
In terms of intelligent driving, Huawei released two new products at the conference. One is the MDC210, which provides computing power for L2 level autonomous driving, and the other is the MDC?610, which can provide L3 level autonomous driving. and L4 autonomous vehicles to provide computing power.
Currently, many domestic autonomous driving development companies have established cooperation with Huawei, designing all aspects of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and work vehicles.
In terms of smart cockpit, Hongmeng Automotive OS software platform, Hongmeng Automotive Ecological Platform and cockpit intelligent hardware platform create a more comfortable cockpit environment for users.
The cloud business is also one of Huawei's long-standing automotive businesses. The layout of Huawei's cloud services was also introduced at the scene, which currently covers autonomous driving cloud services, Internet of Vehicles cloud services, and high-precision map clouds. services, V2X cloud services, etc.
1. Simultaneous efforts in four major areas? Huawei deepens its automotive enterprise
Wang Jun, President of Huawei Smart Car Solutions BU, first talked about Huawei’s thinking on getting involved in the automotive field.
He said that first, he entered the automotive field with reverence, putting human life safety first at all times and following the laws of automotive development; second, he wanted to use the experience accumulated by Huawei over the past 30 years to ICT technology is brought into every vehicle.
Wang Jun’s speech
Wang Jun said that intelligent connected cars have become the engine of the development of the intelligent world, driving the development of intelligent transportation, intelligent manufacturing, smart cities, and smart energy. .
At present, the automobile industry is undergoing all-round changes. The first is the automobile business model, which is changing from product value management to user value management. Sustained income is obtained through continuous iteration of new functions and new services. Selling cars It is no longer the end of value realization but a new starting point.
To achieve this goal, the traditional development model, talent model, and supply chain system will all change, moving towards the development of experience-defined, software-driven, and computing-enabled smart cars.
After Huawei enters the automotive field, Huawei focuses on ICT technology to help car companies "build good" cars and "good cars". It will achieve architectural innovation, establish computing platforms and basic software, and ultimately build Open ecology.
Huawei is currently working in the digital platform field with communications, computing and operating systems as the core, adhering to the platform ecological development strategy to promote the rapid development of the smart car industry.
Huawei focuses on the in-vehicle network, computing platform and basic software layer, and provides open capabilities and tool chains to reduce the difficulty of application migration and development, and provides mutual decoupling of basic capabilities, which can be tailored to the actual needs of car companies and partners. Needs can be flexibly matched or combined.
In terms of intelligent driving, Huawei provides the MDC computing platform, operating system AOS/VOS, and autonomous driving cloud service Octopus to build a device-cloud collaborative intelligent driving platform solution to meet the needs of the vehicle-side and cloud-based autonomous driving. Computing power and massive data storage requirements. This enables the commercialization of autonomous driving for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, work vehicles and other types of vehicles.
Wang Jun’s speech
In terms of smart cockpits, Huawei will target hardware modularization, interface standardization, and system platformization, and build smart cockpits with Hongmeng Automotive OS as the core The platform strives to achieve replaceable hardware, upgradable software, and scalable applications to reduce the difficulty of integration and development of cockpit systems for car companies.
Huawei provides customized development of car-machine version of Hongmeng OS. On the basis of opening HOS (intelligent operating system) capabilities, it also opens 500 HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) car-machine version API and includes voice, 7 key cockpit capabilities including visuals and sound effects.
Wang Jun’s speech
Wang Jun introduced that Huawei will provide comprehensive and open development tools and support, provide IDE (integrated development environment) development tools, cloud debugging environment, and organize developers community, *** jointly established the Hongmeng car and machine application market.
In terms of intelligent vehicle control, we provide VDC hardware platform, VOS, and tool chain, which are open to vehicle control system development companies, reducing development difficulty, improving development efficiency, and quickly realizing differentiated and personalized power defined by software. experience.
Huawei’s intelligent vehicle control operating system VOS natively supports heterogeneous multi-core, modeled tool chains, and is compatible with AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture), enabling smooth migration of original ECU (Electronic Control Unit) system code and multiple Centralized development of ECUs (electronic control units) becomes simple and efficient.
In terms of smart cloud services, Huawei will provide automakers with four major solutions based on big data and AI capabilities: autonomous driving cloud services, high-precision map cloud services, Internet of Vehicles cloud services, and V2X cloud services. Connect people, vehicles, roads, intelligent transportation and other application systems, open up data flow, business flow and value flow, enable business innovation and data to create value.
Wang Jun also said that Huawei will make efforts in developer community, talent training, open laboratories, and joint marketing to build a win-win industrial ecosystem for cooperation.
2. Release of two new computing products covering L2~L4 autonomous driving
Li Zhenya, manager of Huawei Smart Car BU MDC Product Department, introduced Huawei’s latest products in the MDC field. Ecological development results and future plans. He said that Huawei divides the intelligent driving industry into three major types, namely work vehicles, commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles.
Li Zhenya, Product Manager of Huawei Smart Car BU?MDC
The driving scene of passenger cars is very complex, from low speed to high speed, and the speed variability is also very high. Safety and driving Experience is more important. The site and routes of commercial vehicles are also relatively controllable, and they are mainly used as production tools; the same is true for work vehicles. The scenes, roads, etc. are relatively simple, the road conditions are relatively controllable, and the speed is relatively low, so they are also a production tool.
Different demands generated in different scenarios make the intelligent driving industry face impacts from multiple dimensions such as scenarios, roads, routes, road conditions, speed, safety, and attributes. Furthermore, intelligent driving in different scenarios will also produce two different development paths. Among them, commercial vehicles and work vehicles are leapfrog development scenarios, while passenger vehicles will follow a gradual development path.
In order to take into account various models, Li Zhenya also released two new products at this event. One is the MDC210, which has a computing power of 48?TOPS and can provide computing power support for L2 autonomous driving. .
Huawei released two new products
The other is the MDC 610, which has a computing power of 160 TOPS and can help provide computing power for L3 and L4 autonomous driving.
Li Zhenya also introduced MDC Core 2.0, which encapsulates more than 100 API (application program interface) services such as AUTOSAR (automotive open system architecture), functional safety, network security and OTA upgrades, and supports mainstream AI framework and more than 1,000 AI operators, these open API services cover the core processes of the entire life cycle of upper-layer intelligent driving applications such as development, commissioning, deployment, and operation.
MDC Core 2.0 also provides external functional software framework to facilitate the component development of algorithms such as perception, fusion, positioning, decision-making, planning, and control of upper-layer applications. MDC Core 2.0 is based on the intelligent driving operating systems AOS and VOS that meet vehicle regulations and safety, is compatible with AUTOSAR, provides complete functional safety, network security and OTA upgrade functions, and is equipped with an easy-to-use tool chain to meet large-scale mass production requirements. .
Introduction to Huawei MDC Core 2.0
Huawei’s new generation of MDC series products have four advantages. First, it is a full series, which can achieve full scene coverage; second, it is safe and has vehicle regulations. level security certification; the third is collaboration, realizing vehicle-road-cloud-network collaboration; the fourth is openness, standardizing hardware interfaces, opening software APIs, and establishing a development ecosystem.
Li Zhenya introduced that Huawei will adhere to the "platform ecology" strategy and cooperate with universities/industry organizations and OEM/Tier?1 in application software/algorithms and sensor actuators.
Huawei provides more than 30 million yuan each year to provide MDC equipment support. In the next three years, it will invest more than 100 experts in research and development, and will develop 100 ecological partners within three years.
Currently, Huawei MDC has adopted Huawei's MDC computing platform with autonomous driving R&D companies such as momenta, Heduo Technology, Xidi Zhijia, Neolithic, Yuanrong Qixing, Tage Zhixing, and Huituo.
3. Will the Hongmeng in-vehicle version be fully open? Car companies can use it immediately
Yu Liguo, deputy general manager of BNBM and ARCFOX, said that the current boundaries between autonomous driving and smart cockpits are crossing the border. Getting blurry.
The principle change of smart cockpits requires a change from functional design to experience design. Previously, car companies added functions such as phone calls and navigation to cars, but future cockpits need to change to function-based design. .
He said that in the past, when he thought about cockpits, they were all related to driving. In the future, cockpits will be cockpits with the Internet of Everything. There also needs to be a good ecology in the cockpit. Huawei's Hongmeng system will Provide users with better services.
Wang Qingwen, general manager of Huawei Smart Car Solutions BU Smart Cockpit Product Department, shared Huawei’s thinking on smart cockpits. Huawei believes that the key to an intelligent cockpit is consistency across multiple scenarios, so that applications can be used frequently and are always new, and hardware can be plug-and-play and continuously updated.
Introduction to Huawei Smart Cockpit Layout
But this will bring a huge challenge - the software and hardware integration cycle is long. Huawei has always had experience in long-life cycle software version management. In 2007 So we made single RAN to solve the integration problem of multi-standard hardware and software.
In terms of automotive smart cockpits, Huawei's smart cockpit solutions include the Hongmeng Automotive OS software platform, the Hongmeng Automotive Ecosystem Platform, and the cockpit smart hardware platform.
Introduction to the layout of Huawei’s smart cockpit
However, there is still a gap between mobile phones and cars. There are more speakers and sensors in the car, and it is more difficult. Therefore, there are still many problems in getting the Hongmeng system into the car. problem.
The Hongmeng car version will focus on seven aspects: voice, sound effects, vision, HUD, interconnection, AI situational intelligence, and OTA, and then make it into Kits and open them to enterprises, which can be used directly. Come and use.
In addition, Huawei has also developed an open application ecosystem and hardware ecosystem to enable functions to be quickly added to the car. In terms of software, HiCar is one of Huawei's solutions. In terms of hardware, Huawei has developed a car-machine module, In-vehicle smart screens and AR-HUD reduce the development difficulty for car companies and better enhance the intelligence and application experience of smart cockpits.
At present, AutoNavi and Kuwo Music have cooperated with Huawei Hongmeng and have logged into the Hongmeng car system.
4. Huawei Cloud covers four major businesses? The three areas of electricity and electricity have also made arrangements
Liao Zhenqin, general manager of Huawei’s Smart Car Cloud Service Product Department, introduced the connection between Huawei Cloud services and automobiles.
Liao Zhenqin believes that there are many core challenges facing the new four modernizations of automobiles. In terms of intelligence, the difficulty of autonomous driving technology, high cost and long cycle are the current core issues.
In terms of electrification, battery safety issues occur frequently, and inaccurate estimation of service life is also an unresolved problem. In terms of connectivity, there is a lack of data monetization and ecological support, and a positive business cycle has not yet been effectively constructed. In terms of sharing, scale effects have not yet formed, and data sharing and service capabilities are insufficient.
Introduction to Huawei Smart Car Cloud Service
Liao Zhenqin said that Huawei Smart Car Cloud service has been upgraded to version 2.0, including autonomous driving cloud service, Internet of Vehicles cloud service, and high-precision map cloud Services, V2X cloud services. At present, Huawei has opened API/SDK, and users can obtain it on demand and use it out of the box.
Huawei’s current cloud services mainly focus on autonomous driving. It has established a full life cycle closed-loop solution that can achieve full hosting, out-of-the-box use, and provide one-stop services.
Introduction to Huawei's autonomous driving cloud services
Cloud simulation can also ensure the quality of autonomous driving algorithms. Users can create high-quality simulation scenarios in the cloud, and cloud simulation testing can realize daily driving of autonomous driving. Thousands of miles of data accumulation.
High-precision map cloud service is also a focus of Huawei. It has established a dedicated cloud platform and cooperates with many map vendors to serve autonomous vehicle companies. For companies without map drawing qualifications, it can also Use Huawei's high-precision map cloud service.
Huawei has been engaged in Internet of Vehicles cloud services for many years, and currently includes intelligent operation and maintenance services, Sandian cloud servers, OTA and intelligent value-added services.
Introduction to Huawei Internet of Vehicles Cloud Services
It is worth noting that Huawei’s layout of three electric cloud services, Huawei has already provided battery failure warning, thermal runaway warning, and battery health status assessment. , Remaining battery life prediction and battery control strategy optimization can achieve early warning of thermal runaway, accurate SOH assessment and RUL assessment, and optimize BMS strategies to extend battery life.
Conclusion: Huawei is deeply integrated into the automotive industry
Currently, Huawei has two key strategies in its automotive business. The first is to use ICT technology to create components with better performance and lower prices (including millimeter wave radar and lidar), and the second is to develop the underlying software of automobiles on a large scale.
Specifically, Huawei has made a basic layout in intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent control and cloud services, and created a complete open platform.
However, Huawei is still a newcomer in the automotive field and needs to expand its circle of friends. A key message conveyed by Huawei at this ecological conference is that it hopes to establish cooperation with more manufacturers and deepen its presence in the automotive industry. The layout of the industry.
This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.