Baidu began to develop autonomous driving technology from 20 13, and its Apollo program has become the world's largest open source autonomous driving platform. Apollo has a strong global ecosystem, including nearly 200 partners around the world. Obtained patents 1598, and completed more than 6 million kilometers of road tests. In March 2020, the global research institute NR listed Apollo as one of the four global leaders in the field of autonomous driving.
As the world's leading provider of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) interconnection solutions, RTI provides key solutions to improve the robustness and stability of autonomous driving technology. This time RTI will join the ecosystem of Apollo autopilot partners, which will create a new breakthrough in technology. ConnectDrive provided by RTI is a software framework based on the open data distribution service (DDS) standard, which can achieve unique communication reliability, which is also a key factor necessary for the successful development and operation of self-driving cars. With ConnectDrive, manufacturers can respond faster and keep innovating in the ever-changing market demand. By using data-centric software framework to support their present and future needs, automobile manufacturers can get more value from application systems. Based on the mature RTI technology, ConnectDrive has been applied in more than 250 self-driving car projects and more than 1500 other demanding real-time intelligent distributed systems around the world.
In this cooperation, RTI ConnectDrive software will be integrated into Apollo Computing Unit (ACU) to support Apollo Parking Service (AVP). Apollo AVP is a solution specially designed for private car industry and * * * car company, which can realize the functions of remote car picking, remote automatic parking, automatic parking detection, low-speed cruising and so on. At the same time, AVP has greatly improved the parking experience of drivers. Nowadays, more and more automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) require automobiles to have new functions of AVP. Baidu AVP solution consists of software such as perception, perception, planning and control.