Volvo Group selected Nvidia for conversion of freight transportation

2019

On June 18, 2019 the Volvo Group company announced transition to the platform of autonomous driving NVIDIA DRIVE for training, testing and an output to the market of self-driving transport, including public, cargo, garbage-disposal, construction, mine, forestry and landscape and other its types.

According to the company, implementing algoritmyiskusstvenny intelligence to all these spheres of transport, Volvo Group and NVIDIA will be able to create the updated vehicles and to provide more efficient services.

Teams of engineers of both companies will cooperate both in Gothenburg, and in Silicon Valley. Together they will be engaged in development of the DRIVE AGX Pegasus platform for automobile AI calculations and application of a stack of DRIVE AV for data processing from 360-degree sensors, interpretation of data, localization of cards and planning of a route. Teams of engineers will also test and validate systems using the hardware-software platform of modeling NVIDIA DRIVE.

If to apply technologies of autonomous driving to all transport in the world, potential benefits will be huge. All transport industries, from public transport before cargo transportation, special transport and construction, will become more effective as machines will be able longer to work and to go further.

For June, 2019 growth of popularity of online purchases subjects the world transport systems to the increasing stress. Autonomous vehicles can solve a problem of an urgent delivery.

Autonomous transport for cargo transportation comes to roads as it is impossible in time. It can work 24/7, improving delivery dates. Thanks to its more high efficiency, annual costs on logistics in the USA can be reduced by 45% — that makes from 85 to 125 billion US dollars, according to experts of McKinsey.

The next generation of Volvo vehicles will be able to improve considerably the industry of transportations – from short routine tasks, such as loading and unloading of containers on cargoships and accomplishment of different port transactions, to autonomous movement along highways.

Integrating the high-performance complete solutions NVIDIA DRIVE with the scale of the world's second producer of freight vehicles, NVIDIA and Volvo Group will allow to bring quicker to the market effective autonomous cargo vehicles.

Before bringing to real roads autonomous transport, Volvo Group will test them and to certify using the platform of hardware-in-the-loop simulation NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation which allows to set the most different conditions of driving and a situation on the road.

Using hardware-in-the-loop simulation of the company will be able to hold testing of autonomous systems of driving on the same hardware and the software which will be set in the car, but in much bigger scale.