Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.60
June 23, 2021
WeRide.ai, which claims to be the first startup to have permission to test driverless cars in both China and the U.S., today announced that it has closed its $310 million (U.S.) Series C fundraising round. The Guangzhou, China-based company said it plans to use the financing to continue developing and commercializing its autonomous vehicle technology. “WeRide Master Platform, our core autonomous driving technology solution, has helped to accelerate the company’s development,” stated Tony Han, founder and CEO of WeRide. “This drives the successful operation of our robotaxi service in Guangzhou since 2019 and the introduction of the WeRide driverless Mini…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.84
June 21, 2021
…and Iveco for commercial vehicles. They also include Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus for buses and coaches; Iveco Astra for quarry and construction vehicles, Magirus for firefighting vehicles, Iveco Defence Vehicles for defense, and FPT Industrial for engines and transmissions. Raven Industries has three business divisions: Applied Technology for precision agriculture, Engineered Films for high-performance specialty films, and Aerostar for aerospace. The company has developed autonomous systems for areas such as farming, defense, and scientific research. It had consolidated net sales of $348.4 million for the 12 months that ended on Jan. 31, 2021. Raven Industries also said it is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
June 15, 2021
…protection to deliver internal RAM resilience, address and data bus error detection and correction, and IP resiliency in industrial applications. The module comes with functional safety capabilities supervised by the Safety Cluster Engine (SCE), making it suitable for safety-certified industrial-grade products, said NVIDIA. In addition, it has the same key accelerators and high-speed I/Os included with Jetson AGX Xavier. It is pin-compatible with the Jetson AGX Xavier and has up to 20 times the performance and four times the memory of Jetson TX2i. Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial features a 512-core NVIDIA Volta graphics processing unit (GPU) with 64 Tensor Cores,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
May 11, 2021
…integration, and scaling,” he explained. “RTI connects the data bus, enabling modular, scalable development of streaming analytics and controls, human-machine interfaces, sensors, and actuators.” Connext 6.1 includes support for .NET Core 5, enabling developers to use C# and run their applications on any platform that supports .NET Standard 2.0, said RTI. This includes Windows, Linux, MacOS, and the Unity game engine for visualization, said Barnett. “The new System Designer tool gives developers visual insight into data types so they can validate configurations and verify compatibility and interoperability,” he added. “And the RTI Administration Console includes new graphical views. The old…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
December 11, 2020
…large volumes of data from the vehicle perception sensors, buses and networks, and on generating simulated scenarios to analyze the behavior of the software, individual systems and subsystems, as well as complete, integrated systems. The incoming data has to be enriched to a usable format, and it must be easy to distribute to teams working on AI-based development and data replay, as well as simulation and validation tasks. This requires a powerful, flexible, and centralized data storage system, as well as a scalable and computational infrastructure with AI- and ML-based tools that can run seamlessly in the same environment. dSPACE…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.35
December 17, 2019
…manufactured parts are already built into the interiors of buses. However, instead of using external service providers, Daimler Buses plans to set up its first service bases in 2020 as its own 3D printing centers for spare parts and individualized components. The production and delivery of a 3D printed part only takes a few days instead of several months. Logistical costs can be greatly reduced, and this production technology also produces significantly less waste, the company reports. Sintratec offers an affordable end-to-end solution in the field of selective laser sintering (SLS), which is suited for training and education as well…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.37
September 20, 2019
…making their way into the autonomous realm are trucks, buses, and yard and shuttle trucks. In my opinion, these autonomous vehicles which operate in controlled environments, such as ports, manufacturing plants, and distribution center yards will be the first to go mainstream. Already, companies have made fully autonomous beer deliveries and struck alliances to operate autonomous trucks (ATs) jointly. The rigs these companies are using are typically new medium- and heavy-duty trucks, outfitted with lidars, sensors, and other technology to allow the vehicle to operate without human intervention. Basic versions of the kit cost as little as $30,000; high-end packages…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
July 01, 2019
…depth, out-of-order execution, size of the address and data bus, multi-core architectures, frequency of operations and memory hierarchy. Each of these options requires a careful trade-off between power, performance and area. Designers should also recognize that many IoT devices require always-on performance, which relies on the implementation of a sleep mode. Under these conditions, leakage current becomes a problem when it wastes energy. “One area often overlooked is leakage current because many IoT devices are often sleeping, so the leakage current dominates,” says Paul Washkewicz, co-founder and vice president of marketing of Eta Compute. “In fact, the real-time clock is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.44
May 17, 2019
…the team needed to obtain measurements of many CAN bus signals, including demand torques, observed torques, and speeds of the engines and electric motors. CAN is a vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other in applications without a host computer. Goal of the Model The goal of the vehicle dynamics model was to determine how the vehicle will respond to steering wheel inputs as well as torque transmitted to the wheels from the driveline. A high fidelity model of the Lincoln MKZ’s vehicle dynamics considered its yaw, pitch, and roll inertias as well…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.53
May 01, 2019
…“Some transportation companies are already testing and deploying small buses in geofenced regions in smart cities,” says Dutton. “Today, there’s generally a human operator on the bus keeping an eye on things. But these vehicles are already operating in the fully autonomous mode.” For example, with its headquarters in Lyon, France, and R&D facilities in Paris, NAVYA offers autonomous shuttle (Autonom Shuttle) and autonomous cabs (Autonom Cab). Some of its vehicles are in service in Singapore, Perth, Australia); Christchurch Airport in New Zealand; and Curtin University in Australia. Such conditional autonomy with the condition being the restricted zone will fall…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.20
March 25, 2019
…Technology Conference (GTC) attendees began boarding the long black buses that would shuttle them to the site of the keynote. The 15-min ride from the convention center took them to the San Jose State University's sunny campus. It was still more than an hour before the scheduled keynote, but the queue was already snaking through the grass fields, all the way to the student union building that houses the canteen. “Hey, thanks for coming out this way! We got so packed in the old place we had to get you out here. I appreciate you making the trip,” said NVIDIA's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
March 25, 2019
…increased visibility and control over transportation systems, from public buses to private logistic fleets. As 5G networks become more prevalent, cities will gain invaluable access to real-time, end-to-end visibility into their transportation systems. 5G could allow enhanced vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V), a key component to improving road safety in the emerging world of driverless vehicles. It is essential that V2V communications take place in real time, as a matter of milliseconds could be the difference between a close call and a fatal collision. Achieving this high speed of interconnectivity requires vehicles to transmit large amounts of data between each other without…
