At this Shanghai Auto Show, Innovusion, a leader in high-performance lidar, made its debut at booth #6A12 at the Shanghai National Exhibition and Convention Center. At this exhibition, Innovusion brought cutting-edge technological progress, including its image-level ultra-long-range main-view radar Falcon platform, new generation Robin platform, and new perception software platform OmniVidi. The immersive layout of the booth brings the industry and consumers closer to the "eyes" of smart travel, allowing them to perceive a new "view" of lidar that has never been seen before.

Falcon leads the high-performance lidar market, both in passenger cars and commercial vehicles

At the Innovusion booth, the image-level ultra-long-range main-view lidar Falcon platform became the focus of attention. Passenger cars are currently in a critical period of transition from L2 to L3. As the current benchmark product for high-performance lidar, Falcon has leading ultra-high performance, point cloud quality and durability and reliability. It uses a 1550nm laser wavelength. The longest detection distance is 500 meters, and the standard detection distance is up to 10% reflectivity. 250 meters, the highest angular resolution can reach 0.05° Providing more reaction time, it has become the best choice for laser radar in the current autonomous driving industry.

In March 2022, the NIO ET7 equipped with Falcon was officially launched, marking the first time that high-performance lidar has been mass-produced and put into vehicles. Today, Falcon has become a standard feature of NIO’s Aquila super-sensing system and has entered the market on a large scale on NIO’s ET7, ES7 and ET5 models. With its excellent performance, Innovusion topped the 2022 China market share list of passenger car lidar front-end equipment suppliers released by "High-tech Intelligent Automobile" with a market share of 36.2%.

In addition to its success in the passenger car market, Falcon is also flourishing in the commercial vehicle field. At this auto show, Innovusion has signed a strategic/fixed-point contract with DeepWay, a new force in intelligent new energy truck manufacturing, to empower high-speed trunk logistics and freight scenarios with high-performance lidar, and jointly create a new era of smart freight.

Compared with passenger cars, commercial vehicles have complex usage scenarios, high risks, and high intensity. They have a natural demand for the implementation of autonomous driving, and they also need high-performance lidar to provide sufficient safety redundancy. In addition, the relatively harsh operating conditions of commercial vehicles require higher durability of lidar. Falcon has undergone rigorous various vehicle regulations tests, including high-temperature baking at 85°C, rapid freezing at -40°C, and impact tests up to 50G, ensuring excellent reliability under extreme working conditions. Safety and durability, highly adaptable to the needs of commercial vehicle scenarios.

So far, Innovusion has strategically signed contracts with a number of commercial vehicle partners such as TuSimple, Easy Control Smart Driving, Zhitu Technology, Zhijia Technology, DeepWay Shenzhen, etc., to jointly promote the scale of high-performance lidar in the commercial logistics field. application, further consolidating Falcon’s high-performance lidar as a core player in the commercial vehicle market.

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The new generation of Robin Lingque, the benchmark platform for 905nm lidar

At the booth, the new generation Robin platform and product series also attracted a lot of attention. The new generation of Lingque adopts a new platform-based research and development, and through modular design and technology sharing, it supports personalized customization of products to meet the diverse needs of different customers.

Robin-W: high-performance medium-short-range wide-angle lidar

Blind filling and lateral sensing are necessary equipment for high-end assisted driving. When a car automatically changes lanes, enters and exits ramps, and turns left and right, the reaction time to avoid danger is extremely short. Only when it sees enough range can it complete early braking. According to calculations, in common scenarios such as typical high-speed lane changes, unprotected turns in urban areas, and vehicle parking, the detection distance in the side and rear directions must be at least 70 meters to meet safety requirements.

Robin-W is a high-performance medium-short-range wide-angle lidar built on Innovusion's new generation product platform. It has a 120° (H) × 70° (V)Ultra-large field of view, with a detection range of 70 meters under 10% standard reflectivity, 2 times the ranging capability of similar products on the market, taking into account both blind spots and lateral sensing, protecting high-speed lane changes and comfortable braking; with 0.1° (H) ×0.4° (V) high resolution brings image-level point clouds, provides excellent perception results, and provides higher safety redundancy for assisted driving and autonomous driving functions.

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Robin-E: Image-level long-range forward-looking lidar

Robin-E is an image-level long-range forward-looking lidar built on Innovusion's new generation product platform. It has the current detection level of forward-looking lidar, with a detection range of 180m at 10% standard reflectivity, 120 °Super wide field of view, 0.1° (H) × 0.2° (V) image-level resolution, providing rich sensory details and helping the vehicle's assisted driving to be safer and more comfortable. At the same time, Robin Lingque-E adopts a platform design concept. The overall design is exquisite and compact, weighing about 450 grams, power consumption is less than 9W, and the noise is less than 20 dB(A). It is easy to mass produce, stable and reliable.

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Innovusion is committed to the in-depth exploration and research and development of cutting-edge optoelectronic technologies. Through platform development and modular design, Innovusion continues to bring products with excellent performance to the industry and are produced for automotive mass production. The low-power products combined with the exquisite and compact body, curved light windows and other details allow the product to be easily integrated into different positions including the front windshield, achieving a perfect fit with the body structure and vehicle appearance.

Currently, Innovusion has reached strategic cooperation with Fuyao Group, the world's leading professional automotive glass provider, and Wideye, an AGC subsidiary. The powerful alliance provides new ideas for lidar installation that are both beautiful and practical, providing high-level intelligent driving solutions. More choices. The preliminary plan has achieved the integration of lidar and front glass, with detection performance attenuation less than 10%, ultra-low power consumption, and ultra-quiet experience.

OmniVidi makes lidar applications from complex to simple

For many current users, lidar has a relatively high threshold for use, and the hardware performance cannot be fully exploited. Innovusion has always been committed to providing the industry with a complete solution combining forward-looking lidar products and intelligent sensing software. The newly developed OmniVidi software platform consists of two major components: perception middle platform and tool chain. The sensing center outputs the raw data of lidar as sensing results through model algorithms. The tool chain is based on powerful lidar data visualization, data annotation, model training and other tools, forming a closed loop of data and algorithms to facilitate rapid iteration of perception models.

Based on the OmniVidi software platform, Innovusion has launched perception software corresponding to different application scenarios such as assisted driving/autonomous driving, urban smart traffic management, smart highway construction, holographic digital supermarket management, rail transit security, and industrial automation construction to help intelligent The driving ability is improved from basic environmental perception to environmental cognition, creating a more efficient and safer smart transportation environment to meet customers' needs for more reliability, stability, friendliness and simplicity.

OmniVidi builds a bridge between sensing hardware and application scenarios, helping advanced players to perform betterThe upper limit of LiDAR's capabilities creates more scene applications, and also helps new players quickly understand the capabilities of LiDAR, making it easier for more developers to get started.

As a high-tech company with a global presence, Innovusion has been deeply involved in the market for many years and leads the high-performance lidar market. Nowadays, the application of lidar in the domestic market has entered a high-speed track. Innovusion will rely on the world's leading hard-core technical strength to continue to expand "new horizons" in the entire field of high-performance laser technology sensing systems, empowering safer, smarter, A wonderful life experience.

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Editor: Zhou Yiwei