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Automated Driving Systems
Accelerating
Truck Autonomy
Embark develops an interoperable automated-driving stack that works across Freightliner,
International, Peterbilt, and Volvo truck platforms.
by Ryan Gehm
" Trucking will be the first place that self-driving
vehicles make it to public roads. " That premise
prompted the founding of autonomous-technology
developer Embark five years ago. A simplified technology
problem, specifically for highway driving, and
a more straightforward business case make trucking
the ideal application, according to Brandon Moak, the
startup's co-founder and its chief technology officer.
Embark now expects to make the equation even
simpler for OEMs and carriers. The recent introduction
of the Embark Universal Interface (EUI) - a set of standardized
self-driving components and flexible interfaces
- allows truck OEMs to more easily integrate autonomous
technology (i.e., the Embark Driver software that
" perceives the world " ) onto their vehicle platforms, Moak
said during a recent SAE technical webinar on high-level
autonomy in commercial vehicles.
Embark engineers designed the system from the
start to work across four major U.S. OEMs' platform
specifications - Freightliner, International, Peterbilt
and Volvo - which required an immense amount
of upfront investment and thoughtfulness around
cross-platform tradeoffs, he said. The decision to
pursue this strategy occurred in early 2020.
" The major fleets source equipment and technology
from multiple manufacturers for the main
reason that they can't have a single point of failure
in their fleet overall, " Moak said. " This dynamic has
Embark engineers considered cross-platform trade-offs from the start when designing the Universal Interface for multiple OEMs'
platform specifications.
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