At the company's GTC event on Tuesday, founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the company has launched a new mapping platform that will provide ground truth mapping coverage of over 300,000 miles of roadway in North America, Europe and Asia by 2024.
The Drive Map platform is designed to enable high levels of autonomously driving. The company's existing solutions for the audiovisual industry are augmented by Drive Map.
At the same event, the company announced its next generation of Drive Hyperion, its sensor and compute self-driving toolkit which is used by the likes of Mercedes, Volvo, JiDu and, as of Tuesday, BYD and Lucid Motor.
TuSimple, WeRide, Zoox, and DeepRoute.ai are all Hyperion customers.
The acquisition of DeepMap last year was the fruit of Drive Map. The tool provides centimeter-level accuracy by combining DeepMap's accurate survey mapping with anonymous mapping data that was collected from all the vehicles that use Nvidia's Hyperion architecture. The mapping tool has a camera, lidar and radar to provide redundant redundancy.
All of the data from customers is uploaded to the cloud as vehicles drive. It was aggregated and loaded onto the open platform built for virtual collaboration and real-time physically accurate simulation, which was used to update the map. In the process, the company is able to scale its mapping footprint more quickly.
In addition, Omniverse uses automated content generation tools to build a detailed map, which is then converted into a simulation environment that can be used with the Drive Sim platform.
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