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Home » Baidu uses ZF's AI control box for autonomous parking
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Baidu uses ZF's AI control box for autonomous parking

Parking Assistance

The electric car-sharing vehicle from Pand Auto can be equipped with a function that finds and exits a parking space on its own thanks to the new valet parking system from ZF and Baidu.

January 7, 2018
Linda Trego
KEYWORDS Baidu / Pand Auto / Parking / ZF
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ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Baidu presented a new system ahead of CES 2018 which they say can enable autonomous valet parking without a driver. This is the first product resulting from the strategic cooperation between the two companies and is based on ZF’s ProAI, a supercomputer with artificial intelligence capabilities jointly developed by ZF and NVIDIA. Electric vehicles from the car-sharing company Pand Auto demonstrated the functionality in a series of test drives on Friday, January 5.

The ProAI system supports a feature that can drive a vehicle to a parking space and back without driver input. This can be performed using a smartphone app, which relies in part on an intelligent control box from ZF does that all the thinking for the driver. It can process data from the vehicle's environmental sensors and from car-to-x communication. It can then send the relevant signals to the actuators such as steering and braking systems. This valet parking function is currently debuting in a test fleet from the Chinese car-sharing provider, Pand Auto.

"ZF ProAI is ready for production. It is the result of our cooperation with NVIDIA, which we announced exactly one year ago at CES 2017. In our current project with Baidu, this supercomputer once again shows how we are accelerating autonomous driving and also makes it simpler for new players in the industry to demonstrate mobility innovations," said Torsten Gollewski, head of Advanced Engineering at ZF Friedrichshafen AG.

"ZF’s supercomputer is ideal for our autonomous driving applications, as it can process a huge amount of data such as high-definition digital maps in real time. In addition, it combines with artificial intelligence, deep-learning capabilities, and meets all the current automotive standards,” said Zhenyu Li, Vice President, General Manager of Intelligent Driving Group of Baidu.

The primary goal of the new valet parking system is to significantly reduce the operating costs for car-sharing providers, while improving processes and convenience for customers and vehicle users. The Pand Auto electric test vehicles fitted with the automatic parking systems were displayed to the public for the first time on Friday at a driving event in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, in the run-up to CES 2018 this week in Las Vegas.

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