Cariad acquires sensor fusion know-how
随着Intenta的传感器数据融合部门的100多家专家的专业知识，Cariad希望增加其附加值的深度，同时加快辅助和自动驾驶功能的开发。Cariad为VW集团的所有汽车品牌开发了4级 - 包括奥迪，宾利，兰博基尼，座椅，斯柯达和大众汽车。
在汽车中收到的各种数据的融合 - 通过乘客观察的激光雷达和雷达传感器，摄像机，导航或机舱监控 - 为自动驾驶功能发挥着核心作用。只有通过组合和覆盖所有这些数据，只能创建一个准确且一致的环境图像。这使车辆能够识别其环境中的物体，解释它们的运动，从而在其周围环境中安全，自动移动。因此，传感器数据融合是辅助和自动驾驶的高安全性要求的重要先决条件，司机可以从方向盘上脱离方向盘并致力于其他追求。此外，Intenta的汽车开发人员在发展群体服务和展示功能方面具有专业知识。
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“Our goal is to develop important software components ourselves and to increase the depth of value added in key development areas,” says Lynn Longo, CTO of Cariad. “Therefore, we are expanding our know-how along the entire tech stack for automated driving. One building block here is sensor data fusion. With the acquisition of Intenta’s automotive unit as a proven specialist in this field, we are expanding our competencies.”
Cariad already made an acquisition in the development field of automated driving last year, taking over the camera software division of Hella Aglaia. In addition, Cariad has already collaborated with Bosch and the US company Argo AI in the development of sensor systems and algorithms for self-driving cars. Cariad management now sees the acquisition of Intenta’s automotive unit as the next step in this direction. The takeover is expected to be completed towards the end of 2022 and is still subject to approval by the antitrust authorities; Cariad did not disclose a price for the takeover.
Cariad says it is pursuing the goal of massively increasing its vertical value creation in software and hardware development in the coming years through the recruitment of experts, acquisitions and strategic partnerships. In this way, the company wants to retain control over the customer experience in the software-controlled car and help shape it. By the middle of the decade, the company wants to develop a large part of the software in strategic areas of software and hardware architecture, the operating system, the cloud, automated driving or infotainment in-house. However, critical voices can be heard attributing a lack of focus in the development of autonomous systems to Volkswagen with its software subsidiary Cariad.
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