PerceptIn has received angel round financing led by Walden International, A round financing led by Jingwei China, and A + round investment by Samsung (Samsung Ventures).
“We believe that it is more reasonable to adopt driverless technology in countries with a per capita GDP of more than US $ 40,000, because it can significantly reduce expensive labor costs, The market demand is greater. “PerceptIn founder and CEO Liu Shaoshan said.
Shenzhen PerceptIn Technology Co., Ltd. (PerceptIn) was established in August 2016 and is headquartered in Shenzhen. It mainly develops vision-based low-speed driverless technology solutions. Its products include DragonFly + driverless FPGA computing platform, DragonFly Pod driverless park car, DragonFly Bus driverless sightseeing car, etc.
Liu Shaoshan is a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research direction includes intelligent perception computing, system software and architecture. He used to work as a senior architect at Baidu Silicon Valley Research and Development Institute to develop operating systems and hardware for unmanned vehicle projects. Interaction.
Liu Shaoshan tells that PerceptIn ’s business focus is on overseas markets. At present, dozens of autonomous driving park cars and sightseeing cars have been landed in the United States, Japan, and Europe, which can achieve the L4 level of removing safety officers and drivers. Autonomous driving, the model includes 8 and 2 seats, this year plans to land more than 100 unmanned vehicles in Japan and the United States.
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The reason why it can achieve low cost is because Perceptln adopts a vision-based sensor fusion solution. Its sensor configuration includes millimeter wave radar, ultrasonic radar, GPS and camera, and there is no lidar. Liu Shaoshan said that unmanned vehicles with a speed of less than 20 mph need a shorter perception distance, and the visual-based solution can already handle many complex scenes, and there is no need to draw high-precision maps in advance, just based on existing Marking and deployment of the route on the electronic map can be completed in half a day.
In addition, Liu Shaoshan mentioned that most of their landing scenes are small cities with sparse populations. Travel services over 5 miles have been provided by companies such as Uber and Lyft. Travel services less than 1 mile can be shared by bicycles and skateboards. Car solution