The so-called Superset tech stack, on which carmaker Volvo is constructing its software-defined automobiles, is behind the corporate’s subsequent launch.
The ES90 electrical automobile, which is being unveiled on 5 March, would be the first Volvo automotive geared up with twin Nvidia Drive AGX Orin {hardware}, which the corporate stated will increase the bar on security and total efficiency by knowledge, software program and synthetic intelligence (AI).
As Pc Weekly has beforehand reported, the Superset tech stack consists of 1 single set of {hardware} and software program modules, and methods that underpin all upcoming electrical automobiles from Volvo.
It represents what Volvo describes as “a radical transformation” in the way it can develop and use software program to enhance ranges of security, expertise and total efficiency all through the automotive’s lifecycle. “With the Superset tech stack, we will make such enhancements extra effectively and roll them out even quicker by way of over-the-air updates and throughout all fashions primarily based on the Superset,” Volvo stated.
The Nvidia Drive AGX Orin {hardware} supplies 508 trillion operations per second for AI-based energetic security options, automotive sensors and environment friendly battery administration.
Volvo stated the {hardware} will allow its engineers to extend the scale of the deep studying mannequin and neural community it makes use of from 40 million to 200 million parameters. “This may occur over time as we accumulate extra knowledge and proceed to develop the mannequin, with the general objective of bettering buyer expertise and – most significantly – security ranges,” Volvo stated.
The Nvidia {hardware} helps the ES90 to grasp its environment by a sophisticated array of sensors, which incorporates one lidar, 5 radars, eight cameras and 12 ultrasonic sensors, in addition to a sophisticated driver understanding system contained in the automotive. In accordance with Volvo, these security methods are designed to assist hold you secure by detecting obstacles, even in darkness, and activating proactive security measures resembling collision avoidance.
Commenting on the {hardware} and software program improvements contained in the ES90, Volvo chief engineering and expertise officer Anders Bell stated: “We innovate in all areas of expertise to develop into a pacesetter in software-defined automobiles, and we’re channelling all our engineering efforts into one path: making nice automobiles that get even higher over time.
“By combining the facility of core computing and our Superset tech stack, we will now make safer automobiles extra effectively than ever earlier than.”
The ES90 would be the second Volvo constructed primarily based on the Superset tech stack, and follows on from the EX90, the place the stack was first launched.
The Superset tech stack will underpin all upcoming Volvo electrical automobiles, which, in response to Volvo, means it is going to be capable of enhance the efficiency of every automotive in its lineup concurrently. As an example, ES90 clients can profit from EX90 software program upgrades and vice versa.
Volvo positions the Superset stack as an enabler to exchange worth creation by {hardware} with a software program method to constructing worth into its clients’ automobiles.
The Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration may even be put in on new EX90 automobiles, changing the prevailing Drive AGX Orin and Drive AGX Xavier {hardware}. Volvo stated present clients of the EX90 will get an improve of their automobiles freed from cost.
