Prior to this, the only supplier who won this "honor" was Huawei: the red "HI" logo appeared on the Alpha S HI version of Extreme Focus and Aouita 1 1, which symbolized that Huawei had injected huge energy into this car in terms of intelligence.
However, with the exposure of the new version of the free declaration map of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Huawei is no longer the only "boarding" supplier.
Judging from the declaration map, the word "Apollo Tech" was added at the end of the new Lanting Gathering, symbolizing the entry of Baidu Apollo smart car platform.
The brand-new Landmap FREE should be Baidu's introduction to Apollo: Baidu has deepened cooperation with one of the largest automotive technology companies in China, and applied ANP(Apollo Pilot Assisted Driving), AVP (Autonomous Parking) and high-precision maps to one of its popular models.
Early entry, late transition
As the "leader" of 20 13 entering the autonomous driving industry, Baidu handheld technology seems to have been unable to catch the traffic and is tepid in the capital market.
In fact, Baidu Apollo is a software platform officially launched as early as 20 17 Shanghai Auto Show, which helps partners in the automotive industry and autonomous driving to quickly build their own braking and driving systems by opening up codes and capabilities.
Li Yanhong once introduced three business models of Baidu's Apollo business: one is to provide Apollo autopilot technology solutions for host manufacturers to help car companies quickly build autonomous driving capabilities; Second, Baidu builds cars and integrates the innovation of Baidu's automatic driving end to end; The third is * * * to enjoy unmanned vehicles.
At present, the third item is the most widely known. After all, it has been 10 years since Baidu entered the unmanned vehicle project. In 2026, its unmanned vehicle travel service platform "Radish Run" completed the first domestic automatic driving charge order, 5438+0, 1, making Baidu the first domestic enterprise to realize the commercialization of Robotaxi.
Baidu unmanned vehicle Apollo RT6
The second one is familiar to everyone. In 2022, Baidu released the car (under the Baidu Group, it is clear that the whole stack will be equipped with Apollo platform products).
Du Ji ROBO-0 1
The first one is a bit rough to say. Although Baidu has more than 70 cooperative enterprises and more than 800 cooperative models in mass production, the cooperation areas are mostly CarLife+ or Zhitu (Baidu Map Auto Edition), which has not won an irreplaceable position for Baidu in the L2 market.
Intelligent driving cooperation model displayed by Baidu Apollo official website
Baidu also wants to settle in car companies more thoroughly, but it is not smooth.
An Apollo employee once said: "Baidu hopes that Apollo will form a set of standards, and all of them will use my standards. Original equipment manufacturers become hardware suppliers. " Ideality once refused to cooperate because Baidu's plan was not "ideal".
Of course, Baidu Apollo also met its own Bole and its own doom: Weimar.
The two parties reached a long-term strategic relationship on 20 19, and applied Baidu's L2 intelligent driving function to Weimar production models.
Later, as we all know, Weimar became "yellow" and the "prince" of Baidu Apollo died.
Apollo ANP mass production page has only Weimar W6 so far.
Therefore, the way for Huawei to obtain the "Golden Finger" certification through application problems is not that Baidu can't play, but that it has not had time to become famous in World War I, and the entrance is gone, so it can only continue to be a "small transparency" among suppliers.
In the face of the previous model hitting a wall, Baidu made a change.
20 19 July, Apollo 5.0 was launched. Baidu no longer adhered to the universal free platform, but also specially opened a charging enterprise version to provide in-depth customization services for automobile manufacturers.
On June 5438+February, 2020, at the Apollo Ecological Conference, Baidu released the Lego smart car solution, reorganized its business, and divided its products into four series: intelligent driving, intelligent cabin, intelligent map and intelligent cloud. At the same time, ANP (Baidu Pilot Assisted Driving System), an L2+ level assisted driving product for mass-produced passenger cars, was released.
ANP, sharpen a sword every three years?
If you think ANP function sounds unfamiliar, that's normal.
It has been released for almost three years and has not been mass-produced. Apollo official only announced that ANP will meet with you in 2023 with the model (the timeline is consistent with the new blue rabbit's free travel).
However, this scheme has actually released a lot of information. From the Apollo Day technology open day and road test video released by Baidu Apollo, we can learn the following characteristics:
1. Safe
In 20 19, Baidu released Apollo Lite, a pure vision L4 autopilot scheme. After releasing the core technology of this scheme, ANP was created, which can realize pilot-assisted driving and autonomous parking in cities and high speed.
ANP supports the integration of navigation and parking.
Through the road test video demonstrated before, it can be seen that the scheme is very inclusive to the application scenario: intelligently select the ETC channel and automatically pass through the ETC toll island. Therefore, Baidu Apollo became the first intelligent driving solution in the industry to automatically pass ETC.
Through the ETC screen in the official road test video
The ANP scheme does not depend on lidar, and the sensor configuration scheme can be customized according to customers. Take ANP sensor configuration scheme 12V5R 12S as an example, and its hardware includes:
Four fisheye cameras, eight medium and long-distance cameras, four-angle millimeter-wave radar, 1 long-distance millimeter-wave radar, 12 ultrasonic radar, of course, do not depend on lidar, only pay attention to cost and avoid stacking. Baidu's judgment on the sensor scheme is that lidar and visual perception are equally important and irreplaceable. If there is demand, you can also choose to equip with lidar. The system can realize the independent operation and mutual cooperation of vision and lidar systems.
Can be equipped with semi-solid laser radar.
At the same time, the ANP scheme also inherited the 40 million kilometers of test mileage accumulated by L4 Robotaxi, covering different cities, different seasons and different time periods, ensuring the diversity of data.
The core technology from L4 autopilot scheme+dual perception of vision and lidar+data of 40 million kilometers test mileage provide multiple guarantees for ANP scheme.
Familiar with the road
As a company proficient in maps and deeply engaged in autonomous driving, Baidu has broken through three major difficulties: qualification barrier (surveying and mapping qualification is difficult to obtain), self-research barrier (high technical threshold and long research and development cycle) and scarce supply (both proficient in maps and intelligent driving), and developed an autonomous driving map.
Different from traditional maps, Baidu autopilot maps are divided into the following layers:
Simply put, it includes not only traditional content, but also real-time traffic environment, optimizing the knowledge map of driving experience, and integrating intelligent driving algorithm to realize the deep integration of map with perception, decision-making and control applications.
Accordingly, real-time map helps to avoid the security problems caused by real changes; Based on the driving experience of human drivers, the driving knowledge map of the whole road network level can be constructed, which can improve the riding comfort of automatic driving; You can also improve travel efficiency through vehicle-road coordination and traffic brain.
If you think this is not intuitive enough, let me give you an example: with the help of this map, the smart car equipped with ANP scheme can receive the information of the construction site and respond through the information cloud.
Official road test video construction site picture
experience
The data of L4 self-driving cars can bring nutrition to L2 intelligent assisted driving scheme, and at the same time, mass production cars will accumulate a lot of data.
Based on the concept of "driving the cloud in one", Baidu Apollo customized a supporting data closed-loop tool chain for ANP intelligent driving system, which made the model equipped with ANP3.0 have the ability of self-evolution. Huge data accumulation is expected to bring faster and better OTA potential and enhance the user experience.
Generally speaking, ANP scheme is light in cost and heavy in experience, and has the advantage of dimensionality reduction in perception, algorithm and data. At the same time, Baidu's latest ERNIE Bot has also raised the level of Apollo's smart cabin to a new height.
ERNIE Bot is not a lifeline.
Open Baidu's current smart cabin product introduction page, and you can only see the following two sections: CarLife+ and small car voice.
In the current smart cabin products, this can only be said to be unremarkable. As a result, none of the car companies that cooperated with 202 1 Shanghai Auto Show actively promoted their own Baidu cockpit. Instead, Baidu has repeatedly stated that many car companies have accepted cooperation, and it is clear who is active and who is passive.
At present, Baidu Zhicang's cooperative car companies
However, with the release of ERNIE Bot, the situation reversed. Changan, Lan Tu and many other car companies announced that they would access Baidu ERNIE Bot through Apollo in-vehicle products, becoming the first batch of experience officers. Today, ERNIE Bot has become a resource of smart cars.
This is also a natural thing, because apart from Baidu, no other company in China can produce products like ERNIE Bot, and there are not only few similar products abroad, but also the days when we let go of our qualifications are far away. The current classical Chinese is a lever to incite domestic industrial changes. This lever was built by Baidu four years ago.
In 20 19, Baidu developed the Wenxin model, which covers three levels: basic model, task model and industry model, covering language, vision and biology. After large-scale and wide data training, it can adapt to a series of tasks downstream.
For example, the aerospace-Baidu Wenxin model jointly developed by Baidu and China's lunar exploration aerospace project can integrate data and knowledge in the aerospace field, intelligently collect, analyze and understand aerospace data, and help technological breakthroughs such as deep space intelligent perception, planning and control.
ERNIE Bot is a new member of Wen Xin model family, which belongs to knowledge-enhanced language model. He can talk and interact with people, answer questions and assist in creation.
At the Baidu ERNIE Bot conference, Li Yanhong showed ERNIE Bot's comprehensive ability in five usage scenarios: literary creation, business copy creation, mathematical calculation, Chinese understanding and multimodal generation (different forms of the same content, such as changing the text describing spring into pictorial with the same theme).
For example, you can answer Liu's personal information and continue to write "Three-body" and so on. To some extent, it can understand human intentions and has human accuracy, logic and fluency.
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