Introduction

2121/2/17

A small virus ravaged the land of China, infecting tens of thousands of people with COVID-19. Whenever this crisis comes, it will show the strong cohesion of the Chinese nation. People all over the country go up and down to Qi Xin and take the initiative to respond to the call to stay indoors and try to reduce the spread of the virus.

The infectious ability of Covid-19 this time is really too strong. As long as you have contact with the confirmed patients, it is hard to escape. Therefore, the most effective way to block the virus is to minimize the contact between people. But sometimes this kind of contact is inevitable. At least you have to go out to buy some food every few days. The living can't starve to death.

We ordinary people can go out as little as possible and have less contact with others in our lives, but the medical staff, at this time, they leave their homes for everyone and fight hard in the front line of fighting the epidemic, and they are always in the most dangerous environment. In the report, we can see that many medical staff are rotating around the clock, so it is difficult to have a rest time, which makes people all over the country feel extremely distressed.

is there any way to reduce their work intensity? Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, are there any high-tech products that can be used to fight the epidemic? The good news is that Baidu gave us a positive answer. Friends who are concerned about the automobile industry should know that Baidu released a plan called "Apollo" in 2117, aiming to provide an open, complete and safe software platform for partners in the automobile industry and the field of autonomous driving, and help them quickly build a complete autonomous driving system of their own by combining vehicles and hardware systems, which indicates that the giant Baidu has officially set foot in the field of autonomous driving.

Today, many Baidu Apollo unmanned vehicles have been mass-produced and put into operation in some areas. Of course, this unmanned vehicle is not what people think of as a driverless car, but an L4-class unmanned micro-logistics vehicle named Neolithic. From then on, people can enjoy the catering and express delivery of goods delivered by unmanned vehicles.

since it can be used for distribution, why can't it be used in anti-epidemic work? Unmanned service has the ability to work efficiently and continuously, and can minimize the contact between people, which can be an important "helper" to help stop the spread of the epidemic. Therefore, on February 11, Baidu Apollo announced that it would open low-speed mini-car kits and self-driving cloud services to enterprises serving the epidemic for free, accelerate the application of self-driving products, and join hands with ecological partners to help prevent and control the epidemic.

Specifically, Baidu Apollo's open technical resources will mainly include two parts:

First, the Apollo platform will open a low-speed self-driving mini-car kit, which includes hardware solutions, software and corresponding services to support the self-driving application for anti-epidemic work vehicles; Baidu promises to provide free technical adaptation and supply chain support to enterprises that use low-speed self-driving mini-car kits to serve the epidemic during the epidemic.

second, during the epidemic period, the self-driving work vehicle enterprises aiming at anti-epidemic scenes can get the matrix support of self-driving cloud services provided by Baidu Apollo platform for free, including but not limited to key cloud services such as high-precision maps, simulation, vehicle calibration, data labeling, sensor calibration, remote monitoring, cloud storage/computing, etc.

in addition, in order to help enterprises better carry out the research and development of epidemic work vehicles, Apollo will also provide financial support for the software, services, hardware and landing of ecological partners in the research and development process.

Maybe the above text is too professional and you don't understand what it means, so let's translate it into human. Baidu Apollo has joined hands with a number of ecological partners to enter the forefront of the "war epidemic". In the future, Baidu Apollo and its eco-partners will expand their application scale and support more intelligent unmanned services such as cleaning and disinfection, food delivery and logistics in epidemic areas and isolated areas.

On February 4th, two unmanned logistics trolleys of Apollo Eco-Partner Neolithic were sent to Wuhan, ready to be put into epidemic prevention work. On February 6th, the unmanned logistics vehicle and unmanned cleaning and disinfection vehicle respectively developed by Apollo ecological partners Neolithic and Zhixingzhe Technology have arrived at the isolation point in Beijing, and can be used for independent cleaning, disinfection and food delivery services in the isolation area in the future.

Baidu Apollo ecological partner Qingdao Wuniu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., from October 31th, technicians resolutely went to the forefront of the epidemic to deploy unmanned disinfection robots in the isolation areas of confirmed patients in various hospitals, and successively donated and deployed nearly 31 self-driving spraying disinfection robots in Qingdao Qingda Affiliated Hospital, Rizhao People's Hospital, Shandong Chest Hospital, etc. to carry out disinfection operations, which greatly reduced the number of medical staff entering and leaving the isolation areas and effectively guaranteed the health of medical staff. ?

Apollo's eco-partner, Zhongke Huiyan, has successively launched three epidemic monitoring systems, including community personnel epidemic prevention and AEB system with body temperature detection. AEB system with temperature detection can monitor human body temperature in real time in commercial vehicles (operating vehicles, buses, etc.) or at the front and rear doors, and will alarm and record data when it exceeds the normal human body temperature.

The editor said that

technology has changed life, which is absolutely true. It is believed that as more Apollo ecological partners like Neolithic go to the front line, autonomous driving will assume its due responsibility and play a major role in the front and rear of the epidemic, helping the epidemic to disperse as soon as possible. The national war epidemic, Baidu in action, Apollo in action.

This article comes from the author of Chejia, car home, and does not represent car home's standpoint.