Beijing Women's Federation

Wu Qiong (L), deputy general-manager and senior director of technology at the Beijing Innovation Center for Mobility Intelligent (BICMI)

 

Wu Qiong, deputy general-manager and senior director of technology of the Beijing Innovation Center for Mobility Intelligent (BICMI), has been committed to the building of a full-life-cycle industrial service platform for intelligent connected vehicles (ICV). BICMI is China's first innovation center for self-driving vehicle testing and service at the municipal level. The ICV industrial service platform features world-class technologies and equipment research and testing, experiment, evaluation, application and demonstration in the development of smart transportation.

Become a pacesetter for the building of self-driving vehicle testing standards and roadmap. Wu has worked together with her teammates, in collaboration with industrial giants in the sector, to draft China's first self-driving vehicle testing and appraisal standards and a set of standards for driverless taxis and other ICV-related products. These have solved the difficulty in getting approval for self-driving vehicle testing and evaluation.

Wu and her team have played a key role in helping Beijing release the country's first guideline on the road driving test of autonomous vehicles and introduced several tests of specific technologies to better meet the demand of autonomous vehicles in the latest application scenarios since 2017.

So far, the BICMI has issued 10 group standards, one of which was on the list of the top 100 standards by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and four of which have been classified as "Zhongguancun Standards" and promoted nationwide.

Bolster the service capacities for self-driving vehicle testing. The BICMI has been responsible for the building, management and operation of a national demonstration area for ICV and smart transportation in the Beijing-Hebei region. It has completed the construction of testing environments for autonomous driving in three tiers and the building of two closed-loop testing venues, which cover 85 percent of urban traffic scenarios and 90 percent of expressway and rural traffic scenarios in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Meanwhile, the center has supported Beijing in the building of China's first open testing zone for self-driving vehicles, conducted trial application of the country's first ICV and self-driving maps, deployed core resources to create the Zhongguancun public services platform for industrial innovation, and provided testing and counseling services to local firms involved in the research and development of autonomous vehicles.

Innovate self-driving evaluation technology and tools. Wu and her teammates have undertaken the daily management tasks of self-driving vehicle road tests in Beijing, prompted the research of new testing technologies, established a natural driving database on the basis of authentic traffic scenarios, accomplished the development of mixed reality testing technology, and verified the feasibility of zero-cost safety assessment scenarios and low-cost safety appraisal in complicated scenarios.

The center has received operational licenses from the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment and China Metrology Accreditation, and earned seven invention patents and 19 software copyrights. Moreover, its 19 applications for invention patents are under review and approval.

Promote the building of a global highland for self-driving industry. Wu and her research team have constantly upgraded their industrial standards, working approaches, service capabilities and technological tools to promote the innovation-driven development of the self-driving vehicle industry.

The BICMI has issued 165 temporary car plates to 16 firms for self-driving vehicle road tests. Statistics show that the mileage of autonomous vehicle road tests in Beijing has exceeded three million kilometers.

Wu has represented the BICMI to proactively promote the mutual recognition of driverless vehicle road testing results across the entire country. During the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in 2019, the center and 10 ICV testing zones published a proposal on the mutual recognition of relevant testing results.

Thanks to the consistent efforts of Wu and her teammates, Beijing has ranked first in the country in terms of self-driving vehicle road tests, built a high-end industrial highland represented by autonomous driving, and fostered a positive industrial development pattern in the self-driving sector, in which China occupies a key place in the world.