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Sweden’s Arriver is developing software for perception, driving policy and everything in between, for the next generation of cars. Veoneer’s dedicated software unit recently announced plans to partner with BMW and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to co-develop automated driving systems.

Giuseppe Rosso, President and CEO of Arriver, spoke to Auto Futures.

Arrive was created in January 2021, as part of a collaboration between Veoneer and Qualcomm. Veoneer was then fully acquired by Qualcomm.

Arriver’s ambition is to be one of the key players in the Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) market, collaborative and autonomous driving software.

“It builds on more than a decade of experience developing active security software and provides an open, scalable, and flexible architecture solution that works today in production with real product generations and on the platform. -form Qualcomm® Snapdragon Ride™ System on a Chip (SoC) for sop 2024/25.Our goal is to provide state-of-the-art software stacks that enable supervised driver assistance systems to drive in highly automated and unsupervised ways” , says Rosso.

Arriver’s Vision Perception software uses the latest artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to offer functions such as three-dimensional object detection, trajectory prediction and the creation of sounding data maps.

“Arriver’s Vision Perception software is in production today and evaluated against NCAP testing with some of the highest scores, indicating feature solutions and world-class performance.”

The company is working with Qualcomm to provide scalable ADAS and highly automated driving solutions.

“This platform will also meet the growing needs of the automotive ecosystem for scalable and scalable solutions, which require highly advanced and energy-efficient computing, connectivity, maps and cloud services capabilities across all vehicle tiers. This strategic collaboration makes Qualcomm a go-to market for Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs for Arriver software,” he explains.

Rosso says Arriver’s main strength is its ability to be open, scalable and flexible.

“As a core automation software developer, we need to be able to be open to integrating other technology companies’ solutions into our core to varying degrees, a closed system will eventually come to a dead end, will not be able to achieve best in class performance and limit future business opportunities.This encompasses all aspects of what constitutes a car, from how it moves (power, acceleration), to looks, to electrification and automation.

“We are flexible because car manufacturers will have different needs and requirements, also at the level of the individual vehicle model.

“We want to create compatibility between as many levels of vehicles as possible, from the most basic mass vehicles to highly automated advanced vehicles in the premium segment. This requires scalability of software and hardware, including the platform system on a chip (SoC),” says Rosso.

Collaborate with BMW

In November 2021, Arriver, BMW and Qualcomm announced a long-term development cooperation for the development of automated driving technologies. BMW’s next-generation automated driving system will be based on the Snapdragon Ride Vision system-on-chip (SoC), including Arrive Computer Vision.

The cooperation will see specialists working together in locations around the world, including Germany, the United States, Sweden, China, Romania and the BMW AD test center in the Czech Republic.

“BMW’s current AD stack with Arriver’s NCAP stack combine to create a team of 1,400 experts with the best skills from BMW, Qualcomm and Arriver. The platform, based on Qualcomm’s system-on-chip and perception of Arriver’s vision, will establish the best NCAP automated driving capabilities at L2/L3,” said Rosso.

In a press release, Nicolai Martin, Senior Vice President Driving Experience, BMW Group, said: “To enable sophisticated and safe features in a vehicle, you need state-of-the-art software across all components of the digital value chain. This forms the backbone of intelligent driver assistance systems. The BMW Group is delighted to further expand its partnership with global technology leaders Qualcomm Technologies and Arriver to include a long-lasting strategic co-development cooperation to continue delivering world-class driving experiences to our customers.

Nakul Duggal, Senior Vice President and General Manager Automotive, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. added, “This cooperation will allow us to extend BMW Automated Drive software to the Snapdragon Ride platform and expand accessibility of safer autonomous driving technologies to other automakers and Tier-1 in an open, flexible and scalable deployment framework.

“We see a safer world with more sensors and safety software in vehicles with human drivers.”

Rosso strongly believes that industry collaborations are key to achieving the goal of safer driving across Europe.

“Developing unsupervised driver assistance software is not something a single technology company can do without a fleet of vehicles feeding development teams with real-world data for development and testing. pre-deployment. Collaboration provides access to mandatory data for proper feedback and development to continue meeting
and exceeding road safety standards and customer expectations for years to come.

“Additionally, the investments for the growth of supervised versus unsupervised ADAS are too large for a single-player OEM or vendor. To achieve long-lasting performance, vertical collaboration is required. ECU consolidation changes the business model of the traditional Tier 1 OEM, and to keep up with the new, collaborations are becoming a must, he says.

He is excited about the role AI will play in making our roads a safer place to drive and travel in the future.

“The growth of AI and all the possibilities. Really focus efforts using data on board (sensing and control) of the vehicle as well as outside (cloud, maps). Cross-domain consolidation and simplification of systems global.

Regarding driverless transport, Rosso has this to say: “Currently, Mercedes Benz has been approved for L3 autonomy in Germany using our generation four vision perception stack which has a limited operational design domain. . What we see is the expansion of this area of ​​operational design based on the availability of new sensors and new data over the next 2-3 years.

Finally, we asked Rosso what he thinks about urban mobility by 2030.

“We see a safer world with more sensors and safety software in vehicles with human drivers. Additionally, it is likely that some self-driving taxi services will operate in major cities in a specific operational design area,” he concludes.