The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – ACEINNA Autonomous Vehicles CES Show 2020 Booth Interview

Episode Date: January 13, 2020

ACEINNA Autonomous Vehicles CES Show 2020 Booth Interview

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com. We're coming here with another great podcast. We are covering, oh my gosh, CES 2020. We're going to be interviewing a ton of booths that you've seen so far with our coverage of the show. And there'll be more to come. We are here with Asenia Booth. You can find these guys in the North Hall at 6738 where all the cool automotive stuff is. And we're talking with Michael.

Michael, how are you doing today? How you doing? So I'm the executive vice president of the automotive and industrial group So we're excited to announce that we just took our new car our test drive car from our offices in San Jose Drove it here to Las Vegas using our new RTK platform which I'd like to show you guys. Alright let's take a look at it. Perfect. So if you come over here. So you can see the ace car they got basically I'll call it the ace car. The ace car exactly so so what we're showing here is actually our real-time

kinematics platform we just announced it at the show. We're very happy that we announced one of the top five boosts to see here at CES this year. So what you're looking at is our open RTK platform, and then a $10,000 navigation system from one of our competitors. It's actually a ring laser gyro. And the whole platform here, the reason why we're showing this,

the reason why we've done this is, we wanted to compare our system versus a $10,000 or $20,000 subsystem to see how we would perform based on the drive from San Jose to the CES show here in Las Vegas. We're showing the test data here, and I'll actually walk you over and show you some of the test data. Essentially, what we're showing here is our device versus a $10,000 ring laser gyro product and we're we're showing that we are within 10 centimeters of accuracy 10 to 20 centimeters of accuracy over the drive period of the trip so we did very well it was a little scary actually coming here thinking we're going to show all this data to CES what if it didn't

go well right I mean it's still a demonstration live so But did you Chris did you Always a bonus. So what is it that ACNN does? Sure. So we, at the heart of the company is we're actually a semiconductor company. We're a physics-based company. So when I walk you over and show you some of the sensors that we've been developing, we develop inertial measurement units based on gyro capability and MEMS accelerometers.

The company is a few years old, a couple hundred people, based in Andover, Massachusetts, San Jose and Wuxi, China. In fact, actually what I'm showing here is our software that's all open source. We're one of the few semiconductor companies that has open source software, so you can go on GitHub, check it out, download the software, do some machine learning and IR with it. It's pretty cool. So what we're showing here is actually a driver in Wooji real time. Those green dots are actually this device pinging a satellite, which is the Baidu satellite in this case.

The yellow dots are actually where we're using the IMU, the inertial measurement unit, which I'm going to show you shortly, that's in this device. In this device, we have 168 constellations of satellites, or 168 satellites rather that we can use at any given time anywhere in the world. Holy crap science the future. It is the future. So you want to show us your the the little instruments? Yeah come on over here. Okay see that excuse me gentlemen I have to interrupt your meeting here. So this is the Open IMU 330.

This product is being released right now as we speak. This is the world's smallest, most accurate and precise IMU in the marketplace. Wow. Moreover, it's also the least expensive. Wow. So all the software for this little device is available online. It's free. The development kit is just a few hundred dollars.

And this is almost a tactical grade IMU that you would find flying a projectile but it's below I tire regulations and one of the most accurate I am used on the planet we're very proud of it and it's available for sale right now that's awesome sauce so they can also come by the booth here at CES come to 67 38 North Hall North Hall They're right up against the door So they're really easy to get in out of and of course you can see the cool cars Touring about asking about what they're doing here anything more we need to know about what you guys are doing to show Michael

Oh, no, that's it Chris. I really appreciate the time. All right. Thank you for having us and to my audience Please tune in stay tuned as we cover all the wonderful booth the things we're doing here at ces this has been a lot so far and there'll be a lot more so thanks for tuning in we'll see you guys next time