NEWS NEC and Sumitomo achieve high levels of se - curity. The two companies will collaborate on mobility take advantage of their strengths to develop AI- Japanese companies systems for traffic infra - AI technologies under the and IoT-based connectiv - Sumitomo Electric Indus - structure. Sumitomo brand NEC the Wise, as ity products with security tries and NEC have views its role in connect - well as IT infrastructure in the mobility business. The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers begun collaborating in the ing these products to the and cloud platforms. The They intend to plan and mobility business, includ - internet and enhancing company also develops develop products and Issue 51 ing planning and develop - their security as a social software for these prod - services to cater to the ex - Continental and NVidia March 2018 ment of automotive responsibility. ucts and services, in addi - pansion of the connected components. NEC has a portfolio of tion to technologies to car market. bringing AI to vehicles IN THIS In December, the col - ISSUE laboration started with the Flying cars to land in Geneva Elmar vehicle connectivity Continental and NVidia Degenhart 2: Flying cars land at support business using are partnering to create (left) and Geneva Motor Show networks. The two com - artificial intelligence (AI) Jensen panies will now plan, de - self-driving vehicle tech - Huang are 4: Denso invests in velop, demonstrate and nology based on the partnering MaaS start-up commercialise hardware NVidia Drive platform, to create AI and software for in-vehi - with a planned market in - for self- 7: X-Fab sites meet cle and transportation in - troduction in 2021 for driving IATF-16949 frastructure systems by level-three features. vehicles capitalising on their arti - The partnership aims to 8: Audi and OnSemi ficial intelligence (AI) produce AI systems that tal’s experience in system necessary to handle the push innovation and IoT technologies, scale from automated and software engineering massive amount of data while expanding the busi - level-two to full level- for Asil D rated safety processing that self-dri - 9: Consumers shun ness in stages. five self-driving, where and integrate a range of ving vehicles must per - connected cars Recent advancements the vehicle has no steer - Continental sensors, in - form. These include in IoT have accelerated ing wheel or pedals. cluding radar, camera and running deep neural nets 10: BMW and the creation of business Engineering teams from high-resolution 3D lidar. to sense surroundings, Daimler go for Here opportunities by seam - each company will work “The vehicle of the fu - understanding the envi - lessly connecting net - together to develop self- ture will be a sensing, ronment, localising the At the Geneva Motor Show in March, Pal-V will unveil the world’s first 11: Rohm’s works in and outside of driving technology based planning and acting com - vehicle on an HD map, flying car production model – the Pal-V Liberty. European power lab vehicles. Moreover, au - on the Drive platform, in - puter on wheels,” said predicting the behaviour tonomous driving and car “The production model is the moment of truth,” said Robert cluding the Xavier SoC Continental CEO Elmar and position of other ob - Dingemanse, CEO of Pal-V. “The moment where the wall between fiction 15: Options for V2X sharing have increased and operating system, as Degenhart. “The com - jects, as well as comput - and facts is torn down. A production model is the last stage in the R&D wireless technology the demand for safe, se - well as autonomous vehi - plexity of autonomous ing vehicle dynamics and cure and efficient services process before starting full production and delivery. All certifications cle software stacks. driving requires nothing a safe path forward. required for commercialisation will be granted on the basis of this 20: Driver assistance using AI. “We now have all the less than the full compu - They will develop auto - production model. It is the pivotal point that separates pioneers from in Kia 2019 Forte Sumitomo has been de - key elements in place to tational horsepower of an mated driving features, veloping and manufactur - dreamers.” take AI self-driving cars AI supercomputer.” including 360˚ perception The certification not only guarantees the safety of the flying car but 23: Switching ing products that support from development to Xavier can deliver 30 and automatic lane also is the approval that the vehicle can be driven on the roads and flown converters for adas an advanced society and mass production,” said trillion operations per changing on highways, its stable growth, such as in the air. Jensen Huang, founder second for deep learning, plus the ability to merge “Once full certification is granted in 2019, we will hand over the keys 27: Product news vehicle mobility, includ - and CEO of NVidia. while consuming only in traffic. In addition, they ing in-vehicle compo - of the Pal-V Liberty to our first customers,“ Dingemanse said. They will use Continen - 30W of energy. This is will integrate HD maps. 32: Contact details nents and traffic control vehicle-electronics.biz @velectronicsmag Vehicle Electronics March 2018, Page 2 NEWS NEWS Sakor steers Aurora to take Hyundai Mobis Denso invests in MaaS start-up Sakor Technologies has Denso has invested in velop technologies that management services ing environmental im - Byton to level four provided a complete dy - start-up company Active- advance the future of mo - were quickly becoming pact,” said Jain. namometer tester for Scaler, a developer of bility, and enable con - obsolete because of issues • Denso has developed a Electric vehicle maker electric steering made by managed MaaS (mobil - nected and automated such as high upfront soft - standard vision sensor Byton is using Aurora tier-one supplier Hyundai ity-as-a-service) powered driving,” said Yoshifumi ware and hardware costs, that detects pedestrians at self-driving technology to Mobis. It will be used by by artificial intelligence. Kato, senior executive di - poor ecosystem integra - night, cyclists, road signs, bring level-four au - the engineering group in The investment will rector at Denso. “Ac - tion, and lack of flexibil - driving lanes and other tonomous-driving capa - South Korea for valida - help expand Active- tiveScaler will help fleet ity, which were limiting road users. Working with bilities into its vehicles. tion and performance Scaler’s platform and operators accelerate new the type and quality of a millimetre-wave radar In the next two years, evaluation of electric mo - technologies, which sim - business opportunities by services. sensor, the sensor lets au - Byton and Aurora will tors and ECUs that di - plify and customise integrating the emerging “Our new AI-powered tomobiles automatically jointly conduct pilot de - rectly control the motor shared mobility experi - MaaS ecosystem with technology and fresh ap - activate emergency brak - ployment of Aurora’s L4 during electric steering. ences. The agreement higher performance and proach provides the abil - ing when obstacles are autonomous driving sys - The system has a also will help accelerate faster time to market.” ity to build end-to-end identified, helping reduce tems. Additionally, they Byton Concept vehicle 1.5kW four-quadrant AC deployment of managed Abhay Jain, CEO of MaaS businesses featur - accidents and improve will explore the use of motoring dynamometer. MaaS systems for mobil - ActiveScaler, added: “We ing advanced analytics overall vehicle safety. It is self-driving systems in miered its Byton Concept ner with Byton, an inno - Also included is a high- ity operators and fleet want to be the engine be - and automation, high se - in the 2018 Toyota Al - production vehicles. and announced plans to vator in the electric vehi - voltage battery simulator service providers. hind the future of MaaS.” curity, and regulatory phard and Vellfire, which “Aurora is supremely design and build smart cle industry, to further that provides repeatable “Denso‘s focus is to de - He said traditional fleet compliance while reduc - were released in January. focused on a mission to premium electric cars for advance our goal of deliv - testing results for electric deliver the benefits of the Chinese, US and Eu - ering self-driving vehi - steering components. The self-driving vehicles ropean markets. cles quickly, broadly and tester communicates with safely, quickly and glob - Sales are set to begin in safely,” said Chris Urm - the ECU via the Can bus. ally,” said Carsten Breit - China in 2019, and sales son, CEO at Aurora. “We The tester validates the feld, CEO of Byton. in the USA and Europe to look forward to piloting operation of motors and In January at CES in start in 2020. this technology in Cali - ECUs in electric steering, Las Vegas, Byton pre - “We are excited to part - fornia.” ensuring that steering op - erates smoothly, with no TomTom API reports traffic by voice perceptible torque ripple felt by the driver. Satnav firm TomTom has tion, which typically in - and is based on TomTom “We are very pleased to introduced as an applica - cludes traffic information Live Traffic. Using the provide Hyundai Mobis tion programming inter - about the route ahead. API, developers can inte - with this very precise sys - face (API) for developers. TomTom Audio Traffic grate it into applications tem for conducting vibra - Called Audio Traffic, it solves this by delivering such as music streaming tion and resonance testing brings personalised and an accurate traffic news services, internet radio on designs for the entire relevant traffic reports bulletin that is relevant to and voice assistants. line of electric steering over voice to drivers in a the route that is being “TomTom Audio Traf - systems,” said Randal non-intrusive way. driven. And because it’s fic is the next generation Beattie, president of Although personalised delivered via voice, driv - of radio traffic bulletins, Sakor.