The newly launched Chinese car brand LEPAS will take autonomous parking to a new level. The next-generation APA system will allow the driver to exit the vehicle and walk to their destination, while the vehicle stops, locks and locks autonomously. Still a … Going a step further, the VPD (Valet Parking Driver) system, developed in cooperation with Huawei, will allow the driver to leave the car at the entrance of a large parking lot and not worry about parking: the car will search for a free space, move towards it autonomously – recognizing obstacles, other vehicles and pedestrians – and stop automatically and send a message confirming where the car is parked and the space in which it is located when the maneuver is completed.
Firstly, the APA (Automatic Parking Assist) function can maneuver and stop within seconds, whether in parallel or perpendicular spaces or even in very narrow spaces, with margins of less than 20 cm. Its operation is very simple. Once we reach a parking space, the driver opens the app and a top-down image of the car’s surroundings appears on the central screen, highlighting the blue lines of spaces that are free or possible parking spaces. All the driver has to do is click on the space in which he wants to park the car, and the system performs all maneuvers independently, smoothly, safely and with absolute accuracy.
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The second, RPA (Remote Parking Assist), allows the driver to maneuver the car from the outside using their mobile phone as a remote control. This technology provides a practical solution for stopping or removing the car in very narrow spaces, where opening doors or maneuvering from the inside is difficult or impossible. The application interface is very simple and intuitive, and allows you to remotely control the movement of the car in a safe way.
Throughout the entire process, the vehicle moves slowly, while the system maintains active distance control using ultrasonic radars and 360-degree cameras. If the car detects an obstacle, pedestrian or vehicle nearby, it stops automatically. The driver can stop the operation at any time by releasing the phone button (safety function while still moving). When the car completes a parking maneuver, it automatically switches to P mode and the system confirms the successful parking operation on the phone screen.
Behind the APA (Automatic Parking Assistance) and RPA (Remote Parking Assistance) functions lies a sophisticated hardware and software architecture that combines environment awareness, real-time data processing and artificial intelligence applied to vehicle dynamic control.
LEPAS L8 uses an array of high-resolution cameras to provide a 360-degree panoramic view. The cameras accurately detect parking lines, sidewalks, pedestrians and obstacles. These cameras work with an ultrasonic radar system that measures short distances. All this information is combined through a sensor fusion process, which generates a virtual reconstruction of the environment that is updated several times per second.
The heart of the system is an advanced SoC (System-on-Chip), which simultaneously performs object detection and path planning, steering angle adjustment, acceleration and braking in real time; On software developed using artificial intelligence algorithms that have been trained on millions of parking maneuvers in multiple scenarios.
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