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TECHNOLOGY REPORT
Volvo's software testing center is the flagship in the company's global
network of engineering centers and Tech Hubs. Volvo also operates
software test centers in Lund, Sweden and Shanghai, China.
Bakkenes said Volvo isn't worried about
other OEMs catching up to Volvo's real
and perceived lead in automotive safety
because Volvo comes at the autonomy
problem from a specific perspective.
" If anything, [AI] will enable us to
actually leap frog even more, " he said.
" Our purpose is to build the safest
products out there. Collision avoidance
is super important and this is where we
start. We focus on autonomy, as well,
but autonomy for the purpose of creating
safer products. We have a slightly
different heritage perspective on autonomy
than many others, and that
gives us an edge. "
One way Volvo expects to use AI to
make its vehicles safer is by harnessing
the increased data that the EX90 and
future Volvos will provide, including
details on actual events and near misses.
The EX90, for example, is equipped
with exterior radars, exterior cameras,
interior cameras, a driver monitoring
camera, an interior radar, and lidar on
the roof. Some of this information collected
can, with user consent, be anonymized
and sent to Volvo for further
analysis in ways that simply were not
possible before. When an incident ocAUTOMOTIVE
ENGINEERING
curs, Volvo can get information about
objects around the car and can see certain
things that the sensors saw, which
then allows Volvo to recreate the scenario
in digital form.
" Instead of understanding what happened,
we can actually send the actual
sensor data, which we can use for actual
retraining of new scenarios, so we can
be even better at improving the system
over time, " Bakkenes said. " We can find
corner cases of scenarios that we do not
support and we can actually use the
technology to build these scenarios out,
we can simulate them, we can retrain
algorithms to cover them to make the
performance of the systems better. "
These enhancements can then be
deployed back to cars on the road and
be used in future vehicles.
" It's a mindset thing, " he said. " We're
focused on making our products safer.
So when we leverage data, we do it
with the intent to actually understand
how can we make it better, how can we
make it safer.
" Starting in the EX90 with our core
compute architecture, we can actually
start to use some of the data that we
get back to recreate the scenarios and
Alwin Bakkenes, head of software engineering
at Volvo Cars.
actually train algorithms on real-life
scenarios. A fleet of actual products
can capture reality much better than
engineers driving in pre-production
vehicles, so it gives us real insights
about real-life safety and how to make
the products better. "
Sebastian Blanco
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