iMotion, an automatic driving solution supplier started out in SIP’s SISPARK in 2016, hosted a seminar at its R&D headquarters in SIP on Apr 22, when a number of experts on smart technologies and automatic driving shared their expertise and opinions on development of self-driving vehicles. 

It is learnt that iMotion got its Angel investment in 2017 and raised about RMB 100 million in Series A funding last year. It now operates one R&D center in Suzhou, China and one in Brücken, Germany as well as a wholly-owned auto electronics manufacturing base. Among its partners are Mobileye, a global leader in vision technology for autonomous driving, and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), one of the world’s largest nonprofit contract research institutes for software technology based on AI methods. 

At the event, Christian Müller, a scientist at DFKI’s Intelligent User Interfaces research department and head of the Automotive Group, shared a series of research methods and outcomes concerning trustworthy AI for self-driving systems. 

Chakradhar Ghanagam, smart driving algorithm expert at Chinese auto manufacturer Great Wall Motors (GWM), introduced several of GWM’s ongoing R&D projects aimed at improving the performance and safety of self-driving systems.

Apart from that, Song Yang, an algorithm expert and founder of iMotion, gave a talk on ways of improving the robustness, expansibility and safety of automatic driving algorithms relying on hierarchical design. 

Zhao Chongmin, an authorized expert at TÜV SÜD Greater China, the China branch of global testing, certification, inspection and training service provider TÜV SÜD, introduced domestic and international self-driving vehicle certification systems to the participants, and offered related solutions based on real cases.