Xpeng Partners with Livox to Deploy Lidar Technology in the New 2021 Production Model
December 31 2020 - 11:24PM
Business Wire
Xpeng Inc. (“Xpeng” or the “Company”, NYSE: XPEV), a leading
Chinese smart electric vehicle (“Smart EV”) company, has
collaborated with Livox, a leading lidar maker, to deploy its
automotive-grade lidar technology in Xpeng’s new production model
in 2021. Livox is Xpeng’s first partner in lidar technology.
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Livox has customized its Horiz sensor (the automotive-grade
version of its Livox Horizon) for Xpeng, not only meeting
automotive-grade requirements but also delivering cost efficiency
and reliability for production models. The implementation of lidar
in XPILOT architecture - Xpeng's autonomous driving system - will
further enhance XPILOT’s safety as well as the ability to cover a
comprehensive range of driving scenarios.
Xpeng’s new 2021 production model will be the world's first
mass-produced smart EVs equipped with lidar, solidifying Xpeng’s
cutting-edge position in the smart EV technology.
Since its founding in 2016, Livox has focused its R&D
efforts on enabling cost-efficient mass production of lidar
solutions, aiming to overcome the three bottlenecks in the lidar
industry: price, scalability and reliability. Livox’s
automotive-grade solution boasts a range of industry-leading
standards in terms of detection range, FOV (Field of View) and
point cloud density.
Livox is enhancing the detection range of its Horiz sensor to
150m (for objects at 10% reflectivity), enabling Xpeng’s XPILOT
system to easily detect any remote obstacle while on highways and
urban roads. Livox’s customized solution for Xpeng also includes a
new “ultra FPS” (Frames Per Second) lidar technology concept.
Through a cleverly designed rotating-mirror technology, the objects
within the lidar’s ROI (Region of Interest) will acquire a 20Hz
point cloud data when the whole system is working at a frame rate
of 10Hz. The new ROI point cloud density is hence increased to 144
lines equivalent at 0.1 second without the need for extra laser
transmitters. The increased point cloud density enables the faster
detection of tiny objects on the road surface, including
pedestrians, bicycles or even traffic cones. The horizontal FOV of
Horiz has also reached 120°. This greatly enhances the smart
driving experience by resolving many persistent challenges faced by
drivers, including the removal of blind spots against cut-in
vehicles.
Xpeng committed to developing comprehensive and safer
autonomous driving solutions, promoting the penetration of smart
EVs
Xpeng has developed industry leading autonomous driving
architecture with multiple modules for mass production vehicles:
perception, behavior planning, behavior/motion prediction and map
fusion. The implementation of lidar further enhances XPILOT’s
perception capability.
The addition of lidar effectively improves the vehicle’s
high-precision recognition performance, significantly enhancing the
entire vehicle’s perception capabilities, particularly the accuracy
and spatial resolution in the horizontal and vertical axes,
enhancing the ability to avoid pedestrians and static obstacles.
Coupled with lidar’s ability to monitor small obstacles regardless
of ambient light levels, this can provide greater safety redundancy
for ADAS functions.
Xpeng’s autonomous driving platform already integrates camera,
millimeter-wave radar, ultrasonic and other sensors. The addition
of lidar will not only provide a greater level of safety
redundancy, by allowing more accurate imaging of the road
situation, but will also enhance target detection, measurement
accuracy, performance in low ambient light and other challenging
perception conditions, and will significantly improve the overall
performance of NGP (Navigation Guided Pilot), AEB (Autonomous
Emergency Braking) and other functions.
About Xpeng
Xpeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV) is a leading Chinese smart electric
vehicle company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets
Smart EVs that appeal to the large and growing base of
technology-savvy middle-class consumers in China. Its mission is to
drive Smart EV transformation with technology and data, shaping the
mobility experience of the future. In order to optimize its
customers’ mobility experience, Xpeng develops in-house its
full-stack autonomous driving technology and in-car intelligent
operating system, as well as core vehicle systems including
powertrain and the electrification/electronic architecture. Xpeng
is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, with offices in Beijing,
Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and San Diego. The Company’s Smart EVs
are manufactured at plants in Zhaoqing and Zhengzhou, located in
Guangdong and Henan provinces, respectively. For more information,
please visit https://en.xiaopeng.com/
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