] [TechWeb June 21, according to foreign media reports, the Volvo Group has signed an agreement for NVIDIA to jointly develop suitable autopilot truck AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform.
Volvo Trucks (picture from official website)
The two sides will jointly develop automatic driving systems for decision-making commercial vehicles and equipment is calculated by training, simulation and in-car use NVIDIA-end artificial intelligence platform to achieve the final system can help the vehicle safely on roads and highways automatic driving.
The solution will be based on Nvidia's set of "software stack" (software stack, a series of software programs or components) development, including sensor processing, perception, localization aspects of the maps and route planning software to support a variety of applications autopilot circumstances, such as cargo transport, garbage recycling, public transportation, construction, mining and forest farm operations and so on.
According to Volvo Group reports, the company will be Nvidia will maintain long-term cooperative partnership for several years, the two companies will proceed immediately to staff to carry out related work in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Santa Clara, California.
In addition, the Volvo Group earlier this month also announced that its autopilot Vera has begun testing truck freight port in Sweden, trucks with a maximum speed of 40 km / h. The whole project is the application of a multi-vehicle Vera trucks composed by the control tower to monitor the unified interconnected system solutions.
Volvo Group is a commercial transportation and construction equipment manufacturer, specializing in manufacturing and service trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial applications drive system.