Pony.ai's vehicle-level domain controller has completed large-scale road testing and will start mass production by the end of the year

On June 22, Pony.ai announced that the company officially delivered samples of the autonomous driving domain controller ADC (Autonomous Driving Controller) based on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion computing architecture and DRIVE Orin system-on-chip to customers. The large-scale mass production of the domain controller It will officially open in the fourth quarter of this year.

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It is reported that the Pony.ai autonomous driving domain controller is equipped with single Orin and dual Orin versions, with a computing power of 254TOPS and 508TOPS respectively.Based on the support of the domain controller and Pony.ai autonomous driving software and hardware, the vehicle can realize a variety of intelligent driving functions on open roads and high-speed highways in busy cities, including: merging with cars on congested roads, changing lanes autonomously according to navigation, Changing lanes for overtaking/detouring, U-turn at intersections, signal light identification or detour through unlit intersections, construction and accident areas, VRU (traffic vulnerable groups) identification and processing (including mixed-flow road driving), ramp passing and merging into main roads, automatic Pass through ETC toll booths, etc.

Pony.ai has started road testing for autonomous driving based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin since January this year, and has continued to optimize software performance to achieve ultra-low latency real-time operation.

Looking back, Pony.ai has built an autonomous driving system computing unit based on NVIDIA chips, applied it to the fifth-generation autonomous driving software and hardware system Pony AlphaX, and conducted large-scale test operations using this computing unit.As of May this year, Pony.ai has accumulated more than 13 million kilometers of self-driving road test mileage, including more than 200,000 kilometers of unmanned test mileage.

Since May last year, Pony.ai and NVIDIA have been cooperating to develop DRIVE Orin-based systems.In January this year, Pony.ai revealed for the first time its sixth-generation autonomous driving software and hardware system solution designed for L4 vehicle-level mass production. The system is equipped with a vehicle-level multi-sensor solution and also uses the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-level chip. The overall shape design is more integrated and beautiful, and is closer to the mass production design concept.

It is understood that the first batch of models equipped with the system is the Toyota S-AM (Sienna Autono-MaaS), a hybrid electric platform based on the 7-seat Senna.This batch of vehicles will start road testing in China this year, and will be put into the daily operation of the self-driving travel service (Robotaxi) in the first half of 2023.