On April 9, Baidu Apollo officially released the "ACE Transportation Engine", which disclosed the Apollo intelligent transportation solution for the first time, and systematically interpreted Baidu's business plans in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and vehicle-road collaboration. In the context of the current promotion of "new infrastructure" by various localities, the release of Baidu's "ACE Transportation Engine" (Autonomous Driving, Connected Road, Efficient Mobility, that is, autonomous driving, vehicle-road coordination, and efficient travel) is timely. On the same day, the "Apollo Intelligent Transportation White Paper", which introduced Baidu's "ACE Transportation Engine", was released on the Apollo official website.
Li Zhenyu, vice president of Baidu and general manager of the intelligent driving business group, said: "The" ACE Transportation Engine "relies on Baidu's years of deep accumulation and leading practice in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and vehicle-road collaboration, and integrates the autonomous driving ecology and Baidu AI capabilities Empower urban transportation. In this era of full-scale intelligentization, Baidu hopes to use the power of technology companies to help cities to implement the new infrastructure and accelerate the construction of a powerful transportation country. "
As the first full-stack intelligent transportation solution for the integration of vehicles and roads at home and abroad, Baidu's "ACE Transportation Engine" is the optimal solution for the construction of intelligent transportation with Chinese characteristics. "ACE Transportation Engine" uses Baidu Apollo's leading advantages in autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration to promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence with infrastructure, transportation equipment, transportation services, and industry governance, through big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other means. Continuously improve the modernization level of the urban governance system and governance capabilities, and build a modern intelligent transportation system with real-time perception, instantaneous response, and intelligent decision-making to make the city run smoother and live a better life.
Baidu's "ACE Transportation Engine" uses the "1 + 2 + N" system architecture, which is "a large digital base, two smart engines, and N large application ecology." One of the big digital bases refers to "vehicle", "road", "cloud", "map" and other digital transportation infrastructure, including small-duty on-board OS, flying paddle, Baidu intelligent cloud, and Baidu map. The two major intelligent engines are the Apollo autonomous driving engine and the vehicle-road collaborative engine. N major application ecology, including intelligent signal control, intelligent parking, traffic management, intelligent public transportation, intelligent freight, intelligent vehicle linkage, intelligent rental, autonomous parking and park species.
Baidu is the world's leading artificial intelligence platform company. In the ranking of China's artificial intelligence patent applications in 2019, Baidu ranked first with 5,712. In the field of autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, Baidu is the only company in the world with closed-loop technology for vehicles and roads, and the only enterprise that undertakes an open innovation platform for artificial intelligence in the national autonomous driving world. As of now, Apollo has 150 autonomous driving road test licenses, 1,800 global smart driving patents, a test mileage of 3 million kilometers, more than 36,000 developers worldwide, 178 ecological partners, and 560,000 lines of open source code. In many fields such as technology and ecology, Apollo has led the advancement of the intelligentization of China's transportation industry by virtue of ten "firsts".
Baidu Apollo Robotaxi team equipped with vehicle-road coordination system helps Changsha build China's first autonomous driving city
Baidu's "ACE Traffic Engine" integrated solution has been put into practice in more than 10 cities, including Beijing, Changsha, and Baoding. In Beijing, Apollo has been ranked first in the Beijing Autonomous Driving Test Report for two consecutive years. It is the company that has invested the most vehicles and has the longest test mileage among all test companies in Beijing. In addition, Baidu is also the first enterprise to carry out self-driving manned testing in Beijing, and has obtained the highest level and highest standard T4 automatic driving license in China; in Changsha, Apollo has landed the first Robotaxi trial operation fleet in China. Ordinary citizens use the mobile app You can book a trial ride experience. As of the end of December 2019, Changsha has accumulated more than 10,000 safe passenger trips. At the same time, after the coordinated transformation of 100 kilometers of urban roads in Changsha, the efficiency of road sections has been improved by 30% overall; in Baoding, Baidu intelligent information control system can effectively reduce traffic delays at intersections and main lines, and the maximum travel delay time for main roads decreases Up to 30%.
In the past March, "Apollo Intelligent Transportation" won successive bids for new infrastructure projects in Chongqing, Yangquan and Hefei. In the future, Baidu will unite more local governments to build the world's leading ACE ace city, and use AI to make cities smarter and smarter.
Wang Xiaojing, Chief Scientist of the National Intelligent Transportation System Engineering Technology Center, said: "Baidu is a leading AI leader in China and is committed to becoming an AI leader in transportation power. The" ACE Transportation Engine "solution is in line with the trend and trend of intelligent transportation in the world and is a driving force New infrastructure for effective investment, new kinetic energy to release economic vitality, implementation of new paths led by intelligence, new guarantees for emergency disaster mitigation, new support for building a powerful transportation country, and new means to help scientific transportation governance. "
The "Apollo Intelligent Transportation White Paper" was created by the "Baidu Intelligent Transportation Division". The report was prepared by the "Baidu Intelligent Transportation Advisory Committee". The members include Wang Xiaojing, chief scientist of the National Intelligent Transportation System Engineering Technology Center, and the Ministry of Public Security. Wang Changjun, director of the Institute of Management Science, Wang Yunpeng, vice president of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and other well-known experts and scholars in the industry. From now on, log in Baidu Apollo official website, you can download the full version of the white paper.