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　　"I Chuang" Stars Shining Series Interview No.28

　Express Micro Intelligence: The Third Prize Winning Project of the 7th "I Chuang Cup"

With the advent of the era of intelligent driving,Lidar technology as the medium-term mainstream technology of self-driving cars has been paid attention to by the industry, Samsung, Huawei, Xinjiang and so on have entered the bureau.

The broad commercial application scenarios of lidar technology can also be seen from the data: the market survey agency Yole Development shows that the lidar market will grow at a rate of 113 from 2020 to 2026, and the market size is expected to reach US $1.7 billion in 2026. (About 11 billion yuan).

In 2021, Dr. Song Wenhua, who graduated from Nanjing University of Science and Technology and has been deeply engaged in the field of lidar for 14 years, was formally established.Nanjing Shuwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.To become a cost-effective laser radar and low-speed unmanned technology overall solution provider as the goal.

Since its establishment 2 years ago, from team formation, product development to mass production landing, express micro-intelligence has been steadily advancing. In December 2021, Express Micro Intelligence completed the participation of Mulong Capital, Jingfeng Group, FAW Lihe, Nanjing Industrial Development Fund and Ralph Venture Capital.Tens of millions of dollars in Pre-A round financing. At present, lidar products and industry application solutions covering different scenarios such as industrial inspection, intelligent robots and intelligent driving have been built, with a revenue of about 30 million yuan.

Looking back on the company's development history in the past two years, Song Wenhua said frankly that entrepreneurship requires the accumulation of capital, team, technology and other aspects. Only relying on one idea, an impulsive entrepreneurship is difficult to succeed. "The process of expressing micro-intelligence and starting a business is like the next game of chess with" success ",The chess game is slowly unfolding as Song Wenhua expected.

Every step of "effective chess" before starting a business"

In 2007, Song Wenhua studiedNanjing University of Science and Technology Optical Information Science and TechnologyThe third year chose laser radar as the topic of graduation thesis. In 2010, he gave up the opportunity of postgraduate studies in higher domestic universities and continued to study for master's and doctoral degrees in lidar in the optical engineering department of our university.

　　

 

Figure 1 Founder of Express Micro Intelligence: Song Wenhua

In the field of laser radar, military technology research and development is far ahead of commercial applications. As early as 2016, Song Wenhua's laboratory has developed and completed a multi-line lidar for autonomous driving of vehicles. In addition, a military lidar project he participated in successfully became an active model, and inIn 2019, he won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Years of scientific research experience has accumulated profound technical strength for Song Wenhua. "The original intention of my business is to apply the lidar technology that I have studied for more than ten years to the industry and bring something different to this industry."

　In 2021, the micro-intelligence team was formally formed.At the beginning of the company's creation, Song Wenhua chose to cut in from the commercial application of relatively mature cleaning robot lidar solutions, the first to achieve mass production landing, the initial foothold in the lidar industry. In early 2022, affected by the epidemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, the original dependence on imports of industrial testing equipment supply gap, the relevant factories turned to seek domestic more mature laser sensor manufacturers, express micro-intelligence and further open up the industrial testing business line. At present, in addition to the steady supply of intelligent robots and industrial testing, the micro-intelligence team has devoted all its research and development efforts to the research and development of self-driving lidar solutions, and has signed a cooperative development agreement with new energy vehicle head companies.

Technology Sinks, Focus on Mass Production

　Holding the original intention of technology landing, Song Wenhua places great emphasis on "mass production landing" in the research and development of new products ".At present, Shuwei Intelligence has laid out three types of products, including SP series high-precision ranging lidar for industrial inspection, SL series 2D lidar products for robot positioning and navigation (SLAM), and ML series (based on MEMS scanning technology) area array imaging lidar products for automatic driving of automobiles.

Among them, the micro-intelligent SP200 ranging lidar has been delivered in batches and has been successfully applied to the wind turbine of a domestic head wind power enterprise, providing timely early warning information for the tower sweeping problem of wind turbine blades under complex wind field conditions. In order to match the complex working conditions in this scenario, the original raindrop multi-echo detection algorithm, which greatly reduces the false alarm caused by the raindrop echo signal on the original data, and reduces the difficulty of the back-end processing algorithm.

　　

 

Fig.2 SP series industrial detection lidar

At present, the micro-intelligence for the service robot and cleaning robot market has also been consolidated, the scene complexity is higher and the reliability requirements of the vehicle radar market, the technical level has not been an obstacle. Song Wenhua revealed that the team has a long-term technical accumulation in the direction of on-board lidar, and the independently developed MEMS-based area array lidar has started to study the environmental impact of bad weather such as rain and fog six years ago. At present, the micro-intelligence and a leading host factory to reach a joint research cooperation, the prototype is expected to be basically finalized in June 2023.

　　

 

Fig.3 Lidar for SL series intelligent robot and Lidar for ML series intelligent car

　For on-board lidar products, the most difficult leap is in the conversion stage.Starting from the demand side of the host plant, clarifying the specific direction of research and development can accurately verify the priority of product parameters and help realize rapid batch production in the later stage. At the same time, the micro-intelligence is also carrying out the research and development of auxiliary production equipment, the construction of automatic car gauge production line and the management and upgrading of workers, etc., actively preparing for the transfer of production. "The developed products are produced in the factory and delivered to the workers must be a set of standardized, modular and replicable operation scheme, so as to ensure the reliability of the products to the greatest extent and improve the yield rate." Song Wenhua mentioned. It is hoped that in the next 2-3 years, Express Micro Intelligence can provide the industry with a set of cost-effective lidar products and technical solutions.

　　extensively seek cooperation and take the initiative

As a "newcomer" in the lidar market, Song Wenhua believes that stable technology and products are the advantages of micro-intelligence,Compared with "competition", seeking extensive cooperation is the more important thing to do at present.. "The domestic lidar application market still has a lot of room for development. The domestic supply chain system is complete, and the downstream application field is relatively mature. Compared with foreign manufacturers, it has great advantages. Now it is far from the stage of competing with others for the cake." It is the consensus reached between micro-intelligence and the whole industry to start and develop the various sub-fields of radar application and realize mass production as soon as possible.

　　

 

Figure 4 Express Micro Intelligence

And talking about the current domestic hot new energy vehicles and automatic driving industry research and development,Song Wenhua believes that the industry is in a spiral stage, or will usher in a relatively mature development in 2025. As a part of the self-driving industry chain, Song Wenhua also revealed that lidar has been pre-installed on some models, and what needs to be further overcome is the difficulty of product stability and mass production delivery.

As for the future development of the company, Song Wenhua frankly admitted that in addition to the gradual advancement of technology and product research and development, the next step is to abandon the original research and development of micro-intelligence. The market expansion depends on the way customers "find the door" to broaden the market channels and further "go out" so that more downstream manufacturers can understand the company's products and realize the domestic substitution of lidar applications.

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