KAR-GO
Autonomous Delivery
Kar-go uses a combination of advanced robotics and driverless vehicle technology, to remove up to 90% of the cost associated with the last mile of delivery. Through our proprietary intelligent package management housed in an electric autonomous vehicle, Kar-go streamlines the process. Our system is optimised to autonomously drive on un-marked roads making the vehicle perfect for solving the challenge of last mile deliveries in residential areas as well as urban environments.
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The autonomous future of delivery - for everyone
Our vehicles are designed to be a fully-autonomous system that expects the vehicle's performance to equal that of a human driver, in every driving scenario. Within the vehicle is a system of compartments and each compartment contains packages belonging to different customers. As the vehicle arrives at each delivery address, the system automatically selects the package belonging to the corresponding customer for delivery.
''Kar-go is the
future of last-mile delivery in residential areas...
future of last-mile delivery in residential areas...
SCOTT WARDROP
CEO, EUROVIA UK, VINCI GROUP
We have reviewed a number of autonomous vehicle solutions, but a critical component for us in developing this partnership was the technology’s ability to manage the complexity of recognising different road surfaces and their absolute commitment to sustainable innovation – investing in the future.
Under The Hood
The full vehicle - from chassis to all the electronics and control systems - are manufactured here in the UK. All our chassis are built on site by highly experienced engineers using certified materials that conform to all British and European standards. Our AI chip is an in-house designed embedded system which powers our own bio-Sim evolution base active artificial intelligence. The vehile received its Ministers Approval Certificate from the UK's Driver Vehicle Standards Agency, a UK government body. This makes Kar-go a street legal vehicle which can drive on the road with other vehicles.
EXPLORE SCHEMATICS
SAFETY ABOVE EVERYTHING
We designed Kar-go to be, not only the world’s best autonomous delivery vehicle, but also the world's safest. Kar-go is particularly good at navigating to make deliveries in residential areas where roads are often bad or unmarked. Equipped with sensors and software designed to detect pedestrians, vehicles, cyclists, roadworks and pets, our Kar-go vehicles can see in all directions up to 100 meters ahead at all times. What's more, our proprietary software and sensors even allow our vehicles to see behind parked vehicles..
Custom Embedded Supercomputer
POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER
The brain of our vehicle,a custom embedded systed. This is where all the processing happens. We combine deep learning, sensor fusion, and surround vision to create a new type of vehicle. It is capable of understanding in real-time what's happening around the vehicle, precisely locating itself on an HD map, and planning a safe path forward. Designed around a diverse and redundant system architecture, we use ASIL-D, the highest level of automotive functional safety.
SENSOR FUSION
CAMERA AND SENSORS
We have over 12 sensors on the vehicles, IR, and ultrasonic sensors. This allows algorithms to accurately understand the full 360-degree environment around the car to produce a robust representation - including static and dynamic objects. These sensors include our own patented sensor - specially designed to spot children and small animals better than any other vehicle in residential areas.
SENSOR FUSION
CAMERA AND SENSORS 2
We have over 12 sensors on the vehicles as well as lidar, radar, and ultrasonic sensors. This allows algorithms to accurately understand the full 360-degree environment around the car to produce a robust representation, including static and dynamic objects. These sensors include our own sensor we designed patented, this sensor allows us to spot children and small animals better than any other vehicle in residential areas.
STABILITY
UNIQUE CHASSIS
The vehicle is designed from the ground up to be one of the safest cars on the road. With no human passenger in the car, all the focus and complexity is on making other road users safe. The unique electric drive-train that sits beneath the car’s aluminium parcel cell in its own subframe, creates a centre of gravity which keeps the vehicle fixed on the ground at all times.
POWERFUL MOTORS
CONTROL AND POWER
We have a unique motor configuration which provides regenertive braking, by taking advantage of the weight of the parcels in the vehicle. This is all controlled by an algorithm to make it more efficient than any human driver enabling Kar-go to travel for as little as 1.2pence per mile.
SECURE DELIVERY
A SAFE ON WHEELS
The parcel cabin is designed to hold high value goods. It is so secure it is best described as a "safe-on-wheels". We designed and built a safe way for the intended receiver to be the one who gets their parcel. Once verified, the parcel compartment opens up and the correct parcel is picked and handed to the receiver.
Hardware
We chose NVIDIA as a hardware partner due to their collaborative approach. They provide a unified architecture, which means deep neural networks can be trained on a system in the datacenter and then deployed in a car running our own embedded system architecture. For training, we use Nvidia's DGX series of servers reduce time spent training neural network in the data center from months to just days. The resulting neural net model runs in real-time on DRIVE hardware inside the vehicle. In 2020 Kar-go became the first street-legal made to be autonomous vehicle on the roads in the UK.
