Arrival Selects Ambarella AI Vision Processor for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Electric vehicle pioneer Arrival has selected Ambarella’s CVflow® artificial intelligence (AI) vision system-on-chip (SoC) to enable autonomous driving and ADAS features in the Arrival Bus and Van.

Ambarella is an AI vision silicon company. Arrival has selected the Ambarella CV2FS CVflow® AI vision processor for the environmental perception module available for all types of Arrival vehicles. The module will be used to enable autonomous driving (AD) and ADAS features in the Arrival Bus and Van.

Arrival is a global company that creates electric vehicles (EVs) with its unique technologies

Why Ambarella?

Arrival believes it [partnership with Ambarella] will accelerate the mass adoption of EVs globally by producing affordable commercial vehicles across the whole transportation ecosystem, and working closely with cities and governments to transform mobility.

What do ADAS Features do?

ADAS features would be embedded with advanced AI capabilities to improve road safety and driver convenience.

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The ADAS features will provide commercial sector vehicles with advanced safety and convenience-related driver assistance capabilities.

Advanced features include:

• lane departure warning (LDW)
• lane keeping assist (LKA), vehicle
• pedestrian and cyclist detection
• blind-spot monitoring (BSM), traffic sign recognition (TSR) and
• traffic light recognition (TLR)

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All of these capabilities are of paramount importance where commercial vehicles are operating in busy urban environments and driving a significantly higher mileage than consumer cars, enabling them to operate as safely and efficiently as possible. This platform enables the highest levels of autonomy without the need for hardware upgrades in the future.

At the time of this announcement, Sergey Malygin, EVP of Technology at Arrival said, “We are excited to be partnering with Ambarella, whose CV2FS AI vision processor provides the required neural network processing performance, stereovision support and excellent image quality, all running at extremely low power. This enables Arrival to bring ADAS features to commercial vehicles and operators to make their fleets safer and more efficient.”

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“Arrival has the potential to transform urban mobility with its integrated transportation ecosystem that includes vehicles, digital tools and Microfactories,” said Fermi Wang, CEO of Ambarella.

Fermi added, “Our AI-based vision processing is enabling Arrival to meet the ever-increasing performance and functional safety requirements for autonomous vehicles.”

The Ambarella CV2FS AI vision processor offers an open platform for differentiated, high-performance automotive systems and is designed to enable safety-critical applications. With CVflow AI processing and ASIL-B(D) compliance, CV2FS targets forward-facing monocular and stereo vision ADAS cameras, as well as computer vision ECUs for high levels of autonomy.

Currently, Arrival is reinventing the automotive industry with its entirely new approach to the design and assembly of electric vehicles. Low CapEx, rapidly scalable Microfactories combined with proprietary in-house developed components, materials and software, enable the production of best-in-class vehicles competitively priced to fossil fuel variants and with a substantially lower total cost of ownership. This transformative approach provides cities globally with the solutions they need to create sustainable urban environments and exceptional experiences for their citizens.

Arrival is a global business founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, UK and Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, with more than 1,900 global employees located in offices across the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Russia, and Luxembourg. The company is deploying its first four Microfactories in North Carolina, USA, South Carolina, USA, Bicester, UK and Madrid, Spain.

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