2020/2/ 17

A small virus ravaged the land of China, infecting tens of thousands of people with COVID-19 virus. Whenever this crisis comes, it will show the strong cohesion of the Chinese nation. People all over the country went to Qi Xin to take the initiative to respond to the call to go out less and minimize the spread of the virus.

This time, COVID-19's infectious ability is really too strong. As long as you have contact with the confirmed patients, it is difficult to survive. So the most effective way to block the virus is to minimize the contact between people. But sometimes this kind of contact is inevitable. At least you should go out to buy something to eat every few days. The living cannot starve to death.

We ordinary people can go out as little as possible and have less contact with others in our lives, but medical staff, at this time, give up their families and fight for everyone, and are always in the most dangerous environment. In the report, we can see that many medical staff rotate around the clock, and it is difficult to have a rest time, which makes the people all over the country feel extremely distressed.

Is there any way to reduce their work intensity? With the rapid development of science and technology today, are there any high-tech products that can be used to fight the epidemic? The good news is that Baidu gave us a positive answer. Friends who are concerned about the automobile industry should know that Baidu released a plan called "Apollo" on 20 17, aiming at providing an open, complete and safe software platform for partners in the automobile industry and the autonomous driving field, and helping them to quickly build a complete autonomous driving system of their own by combining vehicles and hardware systems, which indicates that the giant Baidu has officially set foot in the autonomous driving field.

Today, many Baidu Apollo unmanned vehicles have been mass-produced and put into operation in some areas. Of course, this unmanned vehicle is not the unmanned vehicle people imagined, but an L4-class unmanned micro-logistics vehicle named Neolithic. From then on, people can enjoy the catering and express delivery of unmanned vehicles.

Since it can be used for distribution, why can't it be used for epidemic prevention? Unmanned service has the ability to work efficiently and continuously, which can minimize the contact between people and can be an important "helper" to help stop the spread of the epidemic. Therefore, on February 10, Baidu Apollo announced that it would open low-speed mini-car kits and self-driving cloud services to enterprises serving the epidemic for free, accelerate the application of self-driving products, and join hands with ecological partners to help prevent and control the epidemic.

Specifically, Baidu Apollo's open technical resources will mainly include two parts:

First of all, the Apollo platform opens a low-speed self-driving mini-car kit, which includes hardware solutions, software and corresponding services to support the automatic driving application of epidemic prevention vehicles; Baidu promises to provide free technical adaptation and supply chain support to enterprises that use low-speed self-driving mini-car kits to serve the epidemic during the epidemic.

Second, during the epidemic period, the self-driving operation vehicle enterprises aiming at epidemic prevention scenes can get the matrix support of self-driving cloud services provided by Baidu Apollo platform for free, including but not limited to high-precision maps, simulation, vehicle calibration, data labeling, sensor calibration, remote monitoring, cloud storage/computing and other key cloud services.

In addition, in order to help enterprises to better research and develop epidemic work vehicles, Apollo will also provide financial support for ecological partners in software, services, hardware and landing during the research and development process.

Maybe the words on it are too technical, and you don't understand what it means, so let's translate it into adult language. Baidu Apollo joined hands with many ecological partners to enter the forefront of the "war epidemic". In the future, Baidu Apollo and its ecological partners will expand the application scale and support more intelligent unmanned services such as cleaning and disinfection, food delivery and logistics in epidemic areas and isolated areas.

On February 4th, two unmanned logistics trolleys of Apollo Eco-Partner Neolithic were sent to Wuhan for epidemic prevention. On February 6th, the unmanned logistics vehicle and unmanned cleaning and disinfection vehicle developed by Apollo eco-partners Neolithic and Zhixingzhe Technology respectively arrived at the isolation point in Beijing, which can be used for independent cleaning, disinfection and food delivery services in the isolation area in the future.

From June 5438+1October 3 1, Baidu Apollo ecological partner Qingdao Wuniu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., technicians resolutely went to the forefront of the epidemic, deployed unmanned disinfection robots in the isolation area of confirmed patients in the hospital, and donated and deployed nearly 30 self-driving spraying disinfection robots in Qingdao Qingda Affiliated Hospital, Rizhao People's Hospital and Shandong Chest Hospital for disinfection, greatly reducing the number of times that medical staff went in and out of the isolation area. ?

Apollo eco-partner Zhongke Yan Hui successively launched three epidemic monitoring systems, namely, epidemic prevention for community personnel and AEB system with body temperature detection. AEB system with temperature detection can monitor the human body temperature in commercial vehicles (commercial vehicles, buses, etc.) in real time. ) or at the front and rear doors, when it exceeds the normal body temperature, it will alarm and record data.

The editor said

It is true that technology has changed life. It is believed that as more Apollo ecological partners like Neolithic go to the front line, autonomous driving will assume its due responsibility and play an important role in the front and rear of the epidemic to help the epidemic disperse as soon as possible. The national war epidemic, Baidu in action, Apollo in action.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.