Hesai, Youdao Zhitu reach agreement on autonomous vehicles

Hesai Technology will provide Youdao Zhitu with high-performance lidar sensors for L4 and L3 automated driving, according to the agreement

Lidar firm Hesai Technology and Youdao Zhitu announced a new strategic cooperation agreement on Wednesday. Youdao Zhitu is a commercial vehicle intelligent driving company owned by SAIC Motor.

Hesai Technology will provide Youdao Zhitu with high-performance lidar sensors for L4 and L3 automated driving, and the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation on mass production of semi-solid-state lidar that complies with vehicle standards, according to the agreement.

The two sides will cooperate and explore the iteration of research and development of automated driving and other business scenarios, and jointly develop the technology for smart transportation, the early scale-up of smart logistics services, and the safer mass production of commercial-used autonomous vehicles.

Established in November 2021, Youdao Zhitu is committed to creating value for consumers with AI-featured commercial vehicles.

The L4 intelligent heavy truck of Youdao Zhitu is based on the sixth generation of SAIC HONGYAN’s GENLVON series heavy duty truck. It features sensing equipment such as lidar, cameras and millimetre wave radar from the production line and is equipped with a completely autonomous vehicle gauge-level domain controller, with significant computing power, and a network connection controller, as well as the latest scheme of intelligent driving technology.

At present, Youdao Zhitu has equipped its L4 smart heavy truck with Hesai’s high-performance lidar. Through the long-distance and high-precision sensing of lidar, combined with multi-sensor fusion sensing and 5G-V2X vehicle communication, these vehicles realize the L4-level automated driving at the port, and boast functions such as centimetre-level positioning, precise parking, interaction with automatic port machinery and equipment, and queue driving on East Sea Bridge.

Meanwhile, Hesai lidars can ensure reliable visibility in harsh working environments such as high humidity, high fog, rain and the truck vibrations that vehicles face when driving along the port. As such, it guarantees the stable operation of unmanned trucks in the port.

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