Recently, weride officially released a new generation of autonomous driving sensor suite weride sensor Suite 5.0 (referred to as weride SS 5.0), and announced that the robotaxi fleet equipped with this suite has been fully put into large-scale testing and application.
Wen yuanzhixing robotaxi equipped with weride SS 5.0
In terms of appearance design, weridess 5.0 implements the design concept of "wefusion of knowing and doing" and adopts three means: integration, modularization and split. As the "eye of automatic driving", weride SS 5.0 has 12 cameras and 7 solid-state laser radars, which together form six sensing modules, which are arranged in different positions of the car body, making the automatic driving kit truly integrated with the car, maximizing the original shape of the car body while realizing all-round sensing ability.
In the aspect of lidar, weridess 5.0 adopts 7 vehicle specification level solid-state lidars distributed around the roof, tail and body, which greatly reduces the size of the kit and brings higher reliability. Among them, the top front sensing module is equipped with 3 solid-state laser radars, 5 medium range cameras and 2 long-range cameras, saying goodbye to the past "hat" shape as a whole, and presenting smooth curves at all angles. The tail wing sensing module is equipped with a solid-state laser radar and a medium-range camera, which is highly hidden in the vehicle body and complements the front sensing module at the top, responsible for the rear sensing coverage; The design of weride SS 5.0 is completely composed of multiple blind compensation sensing modules around the vehicle body, which are composed of blind area lidar and fish eye camera.
Thanks to the further optimization of solid-state lidar and computing platform, weride SS 5.0 can operate stably on the 250-500tops computing platform, further reducing the computing threshold of robotaxi.
In addition, compared with the previous generation sensor kit of wenyuanzhixing, weride SS 5.0 is further reduced in size and weight: the height of the top front sensing module is reduced by 66%, the thickness is reduced by 15%, and the overall weight is reduced by 17%, further realizing the lightweight of automatic driving products.
It is reported that weride ss5.0 also provides vehicles with a radius of more than 200 meters and a 360 ° blind zone free perception around the body, realizing the double reduction of volume and power consumption, and can accurately and stably deal with traffic conditions.