Even though many auto brands decided not to attend some global auto shows, Auto Shanghai 2019, the most important auto show in the biggest auto market, managed to attract lots of established companies. The show set up the “Future Mobility” exhibition area for the first time for companies to show their latest products and solutions for the next-generation mobility.

ZF

ZF brought ProAI RoboThink and coPILOT to the fair among other technologies and products. As the latest model of its automotive supercomputer ZF ProAI, ProAI Robo Think has its own graphics processor, offers a total computing performance of more than 150 teraOPS (the equivalent of 150 trillion calculation operations per second) and can be modularly combined with up to four units, corresponding to a total performance of 600 teraOPS. According to ZF, with its scalable computing power and its own graphics processor, the ProAI RoboThink is the most powerful high-end solution and is ideally suited for autonomous applications from Level 4 and above.

The ZF coPILOT demonstration vehicle also made its debut at Auto Shanghai 2019. The system can offer driving and safety functions that surpass the performance of a regular Level 2 system for semi-automated driving. Besides, the ZF coPILOT is also equipped with sensors and functions that monitor the driver and can trigger warnings in the event of potentially dangerous situations. ZF coPILOT is powered by the ZF ProAI central computer and the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. It is designed for volume production and will be available from 2021.

Bosch

Bosch also took advantage of the show to demonstrate its key technologies in autonomous driving, including 360-Degree Environment Perception, in-car monitoring, system redundancy, map and positioning, on-board computer and cyber security. At the show, Bosch demonstrated a vehicle with many advanced autonomous driving functions, such as active safety functions and driving assistance system, including sorts of sensors, controllers to meet the demands of future mobility.

In connected vehicle segment, Bosch showed its V2X unit, multi-media domain control system, driver monitoring system, TEP, automatic parking, vehicle management solutions and cyber safety system. Bosch hopes to use these technologies to offer safer and more efficient mobility services.

Continental

The technology company Continental brought to the show a series of solutions and services for the future mobility, including V2X platform, connected vehicle ecosystem. The company believes that holistic connectivity is a key technology for the intelligent mobility of the future. Thus they introduce its new Hybrid V2X solution at the Shanghai show, which integrates technologies for 4G and 5G network access, Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) and Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) communication. With the hybrid V2X solution, the same hardware and software platform can be used to support any communication standard, reducing cost and complexity for a global application of V2X communication.

Viston

Viston, a global leader in cockpit electronics, showcased a range of products at the show. One highlight was its digital cockpit platform, which integrates Visteon’s industry-first SmartCore™ domain controller and its Drive Core™ autonomous driving controller. The platform can realize the seamless switching from L2 to L3 and offer excellent HMI experience. These controllers can interact to manage the experience of drivers and passengers as the vehicle assumes control from the driver or gives it back, depending on the situation.

Velodyne

With the development of autonomous driving technology, lidar plays an important role for the safety. As a lidar producer, Velodyne highlighted three products of its lidar family at the show, VelaDome, Velarray and Alpha Puck. Velarray, the company’s first solid-state lidar, is 170mm long, 70 wide and 75mm high, and its size can be adjusted in accordance with specific demands. Another lidar, showcased at Auto Shanghai, is VelaDome, a compact embeddable lidar that provides an ultra-wide 180°x180° image for near-object avoidance. The third product is Alpha Puck, a lidar sensor specifically made for autonomous driving and advanced vehicle safety at highway speeds. 

Horizon Robotics

With AI on Horizon, Journey Together as its theme, Horizon Robotics showed many intelligent driving solutions, over 10 AI chips and algorithm-empowered in-vehicle units. Its multi-mode human-vehicle interaction solution integrates various technologies in visual and voice segments and can make prediction based on the analysis of users’ behaviors. What’s more, Horizon also brought its NavNet to the show, a Matrix-based crowdsourcing HD map data collection and positioning solution.

Yu Kaiping, the company’s founder and CEO, articulated at the auto show, that they wants to be an enabler of underlying processors to provide tools and services via which clients can build new products and applications. Horizon is willing to Journey together with its clients to promote the development and commercialization of advanced autonomous driving technologies.