Revealing the “intelligent network” of Higer

In 2008, the promotion of 3G network was put on the agenda, networking has become a hot topic in the automotive industry, and Higer bus is brewing a new product.

In 2010, Higer launched G-BOS intelligent operation system. It can collect and analyze the vehicle operation data, show the driving process, easy to find and correct the driver’s non-standard driving behavior, so as to reduce the potential safety hazard and greatly reduce the driving fuel consumption, and help the passenger transport company to solve the problem of vehicle operation management. This creates a precedent for commercial vehicle enterprises to “touch the Internet”, so 2010 is known as the first year of commercial vehicle Internet.

It was also this year that communication technology was upgraded again, the characters on the mobile phone screen were changed from “3G” to “4G”. Higer bus was also moving towards a new goal – starting with ADAS (advanced driving assistance system), independently developing the chassis by wire“ The key to the chassis by wire is to do a good job in the control system, that is, driving, braking and steering. ” Higer Bus Intelligent Networking Engineer Si Yanxin told reporters. Since then, Higer began to stride forward on the road of intelligent network connection.

In 2014, Higer E-series, the first generation of intelligent network bus, was released. In 2016, L3 class automatic driving bus was launched. In 2017, big data smart bus Higer Haiyue was released. In 2018, Higer’s 8m driverless bus won the first batch of driverless road test licenses in Jiangsu Province. In 2019, L4 level intelligent Internet connected automatic driving microbus Pro-Blue was released. In the same year, Pro-Blue realized formation driving. Si Yanxin said: “the key point of automatic driving of a vehicle is to connect the vehicle with the road, and the formation driving of multiple vehicles means the connection between vehicles, vehicles and roads, vehicles and clouds, and even vehicles and people. Therefore, formation driving is a good entry point to truly realize the connection between vehicles and everything (v2x) in the future.” In 2019, in the “Chongqing i-VISTA automatic driving vehicle challenge”, Higer automatic driving vehicle Pro-Blue won many awards. In 2020, in the “CAB-C national auto driving bus operation ability challenge”, the Azure series of Higer intelligent network connected new energy bus won many awards.

L4 level intelligent Internet connected automatic driving microbus Pro-Blue

After reviewing these achievements, Li Chun, chief engineer of Suzhou Jinlong Higer bus and director of the technology center, stressed that technology should ultimately serve people, not technology for the sake of technology. The original intention of the research and development of Higer intelligent networking technology is how to help improve the level of traffic safety and vehicle travel efficiency, and reduce vehiclebon emissions? How to provide suitable products and operation mode for future public transport?

Both the past achievements and the realization of the future vision are inseparable from the accumulation of technology and the real work of the staff. According to reports, Higer technology center includes “two departments and two institutes”, namely the body department, chassis department, New Energy Research Institute and Intelligent Networking Research Institute.

In the Institute of intelligent networking, the R&D team led by four doctors of Higer has been engaged in the research and development of intelligent networking technologies such as architecture, environment perception, positioning and navigation, planning control, motion control, cloud control platform, system testing and algorithm simulation, and has obtained more than 70 patents related to intelligent buses, including more than 10 invention patents, Most of them are the core technologies in the field of unmanned driving.

As a vehicle enterprise, Higer has invested a lot of energy in the research of intelligent networking algorithm. Why do Higer wants to do this? Li Chun said that first of all, the purpose of mastering intelligent networking algorithms is to serve people. If the vehicle enterprise does not master the core algorithm ability, the future service cannot meet the personalized needs of customers, and will also be controlled by others, lack of initiative. Second, if we master the core technology of intelligent network connection, the market will become wider and wider. “In the process of R&D and manufacturing, we found that this is a cross industry field. It involves not only vehicles and roads, but also communications. In the future, even the whole transportation industry will be involved. There are great market opportunities here. ” He stressed.

Besides the algorithm, Higer has another confidence. “ The final implementation of driverless and intelligent networking technology requires good implementation, which is our advantage. ” Li Chun pointed out.

Finally, the algorithm will fall on the vehicle. What is the delay and accuracy of the vehicle’s command execution? For a vehicle, if the algorithm commands the vehicle to turn 1 degree, but it turns 1.5 degrees, the vehicle will deviate. If an algorithm is equivalent to a brain, then the chassis by wire is equivalent to a person’s legs and feet. If the brain makes a person walk eastward, if he doesn’t follow his instructions, he will never reach his destination. Therefore, the basis of automatic driving is to do a good job in the chassis by wire. Just as it happens, Higer has a good accumulation in the field of online control chassis“ Let the vehicle how to listen to orders, and accurately execute, this is a key work we do, but also we are different from the Internet company Li Chun told reporters.

“The realization of driverless needs the joint efforts of all parties, and the final integration of all parties’ technologies to make the vehicle run smoothly will still fall on the whole vehicle level, because the operation of driverless vehicles can only be realized through the driving of the vehicle.” Li Chun said that as a vehicle enterprise, it is more motivated to integrate the technology of Internet technology suppliers in decision-making and do a good job in the connection of software and hardware.

As Li Chun stressed: “Hige’s thinking has always been open, Higer in playing to their strengths, but also to learn from others.” In the long road of research on Intelligent networked vehicles, Higer will meet the challenge with a new identity and an open attitude.