SHENZHEN-BASED AutoX Inc., a high-tech company specializing in developing unmanned vehicles, has recently put its Shanghai Big Data Center for Unmanned Vehicle Operation into use.

According to AutoX, each RoboTaxi at the Shanghai center, the country’s first super data processing center for the unmanned driving technology, is a terminal connected to the center’s self-driving cloud brain. Every unmanned vehicle will go through a highly efficient automatic inspection and maintenance process before being dispatched for testing.

The process begins when a RoboTaxi enters a fully automatic designated area. In order to ensure the accuracy of the data to be collected, a turntable under the unmanned vehicle will rotate to let the computer system calibrate the sensors equipped on the vehicle, Shenzhen Economic Daily said yesterday in its report.

The move is designed to ensure the validity and consistency of the data collected during a driving test, the Daily said.

Each RoboTaxi is equipped with a self detection system and a real-time self monitoring system, which will process data in a millisecond to detect malfunction. The system will monitor the vehicle chassis, the complex systematic signals, the sensors, the road condition and its surrounding environment and have all data stored in the “black box,” according to AutoX.

High-quality driving tests on a large scale and simulation data are vital to the further development of unmanned driving technology, paving the way for the commercial use of the unmanned vehicles in the market.

The Daily said AutoX’s Shanghai center in Jiading District will serve as an unmanned driving technology application center and a big data processing center.

Headquartered in Shenzhen, AutoX Inc. has R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai, the Silicon Valley and San Diego in the United States. The company now operates two unmanned driving demonstration zones in Shenzhen and Shanghai.

The RoboTaxi is the country’s first unmanned vehicle developed by AutoX, which combines the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and the application of a large quantity of data on urban road conditions in China, according to PEdaily.cn, a Chinese portal on entrepreneurship and venture capital investment.

AutoX is the first company in China to have obtained a license for automatic driving road tests in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the Daily said.

(Wei Jie)