Autonomous Trucks
The company plans to develop upcoming generations of its autonomous trucking platform on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, which is capable of more than 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS). NuPort is also leveraging NVIDIA DRIVE OS and DriveWorks software for open and easily scalable autonomous development. “Autonomous trucks need to safely operate in all kinds of environments – including Canada’s sometimes harsh and dangerous weather conditions,” said Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA. “Selecting the NVIDIA DRIVE platform gives NuPort the scalable computational horsepower to design and test sophisticated AI essential for safe autonomous trucks.”NVIDIA DRIVE provides support for different sensors, including lidars, radars, cameras, and GPS, all on a centralized computing platform. The pilot leverages the NVIDIA DRIVE platform as the in-vehicle computer controlling the autonomous systems for Level 4 autonomy.