Today, with the booming automotive industry, major automakers have stepped up their independent research and development efforts, striving to stand out in the fierce market competition.
Foton Motor, as a new force in China's commercial vehicle companies, has always been at the forefront of technological innovation.
Recently, Foton Motor's self-developed vehicle controller VCU (Vehicle Control Unit) has attracted widespread attention in the industry with its advanced technical concepts and ultra-high user value.
The self-developed VCU integrates power (torque) coordination, vehicle control, operation strategy and other functions, and has demonstrated extraordinary strength in improving vehicle performance and optimizing energy utilization.
VCU, the smart "brain" of the car
VCU, or vehicle controller, is one of the core components of the car. It is like the "smart brain" of the car. It can combine the vehicle's driving status and the driver's intention to conduct a comprehensive analysis and make corresponding judgments, and issue "instructions" to the lower-level component controllers to achieve control decisions for various functional performances.
Relying on its own accumulated user operating data, Foton Motor has carried out forward full-stack independent development of the vehicle's core algorithms, software systems, functional strategies, etc., and coordinated the engine, gearbox, controller, sensor and other systems to achieve an important leap from distributed to integrated vehicle control.
Through a highly integrated system architecture, Foton's self-developed VCU achieves rapid processing and accurate recognition of vehicle signals. It can keenly capture the driver's driving intentions and respond quickly whether it is accelerating, decelerating or turning.
At the same time, it also has the ability to coordinate external torque intervention, which means that in complex and changing driving environments, it can intelligently adjust power output to ensure that the vehicle can maintain a good state under various working conditions.
More importantly, Foton Motor's VCU achieves economical control of the vehicle's power output through advanced algorithms, effectively reducing energy consumption and improving the vehicle's endurance.
Safe and efficient, accompanying you all the way
Foton Motor relies on its self-developed VCU to fully cover 3 major items and 27 functional modules, including all functions of the vehicle controller. The breadth and depth of its development content are second to none in the field of commercial vehicles at home and abroad.
This technological breakthrough not only demonstrates Foton Motor’s deep strength in the field of independent research and development, but is also of great significance:
On the one hand, Foton Motor is based on 200,000+ Internet of Vehicles data, supplemented by 260+ scenario working condition surveys. With this solid foundation, Foton Motor’s independent research and development can gain a deeper insight into user needs and more accurately define functions and design selections. , match solutions more intelligently;
On the other hand, the self-developed VCU ensures that Foton Motors is not subject to external restrictions in technology iteration, can flexibly respond to market changes, optimize software strategies, and achieve intelligent upgrades through dynamic calibration technology to create a safer and more efficient vehicle for cardholders. , fuel-saving and intelligent products.
Save fuel and reduce costs, easily handle various road conditions
The VCU independently developed by Foton Motor is also "resistant" in terms of fuel saving.
Its core full torque chain intelligent fuel-saving technology uses VCU as the center of vehicle torque control to ensure smooth power output and improved economy, enabling the vehicle to achieve significant fuel savings of 2-3% during driving. Effect.
In addition, Foton Motor's VCU also integrates predictive comprehensive fuel-saving cruise control technology and fuel-saving control technology based on scenarios and working conditions, further improving fuel-saving performance.
The predictive integrated fuel-saving cruise control technology relies on advanced global dynamic three-dimensional algorithms and on-board map information to predict the future driving environment and adjust key parameters such as engine torque, braking system, gear and predictive thermal management in advance to achieve forward-looking fuel-saving strategies.
On continuously undulating roads, such as mountainous highways, this technology can achieve fuel savings of up to 8%.
A number of intelligent technologies are implemented simultaneously, which can achieve a fuel saving effect of 5-9%.
Precise intelligence brings a smoother driving experience
The VCU independently developed by Foton Motor is still outstanding in the application of intelligent technology.
First of all, the VCU's built-in accurate vehicle weight estimation technology can achieve a test accuracy of up to 8% under different road and load conditions without additional cost, far exceeding the industry average, and the calculation speed is extremely fast, taking less than 2 seconds.
This function not only greatly improves the accuracy of torque control, making the driving experience smoother, but also assists the driver in evaluating the vehicle weight through the instrument display, realizing intelligent and precise management.
Secondly, VCU also innovatively introduces intelligent EBP control technology and intelligent interconnection and adjustable speed limit functions.
Intelligent EBP control technology can combine vehicle weight and driver driving behavior to intelligently match power output to ensure driving comfort and response speed.
The intelligent interconnection and adjustable speed limit function can autonomously set a safe speed according to the vehicle's operating road conditions, effectively avoiding the risk of speeding.
At the same time, through OTA and remote diagnosis services, the vehicle status is monitored in real time, early warning and accurate identification of fault causes and levels are given, and timely maintenance suggestions are provided to the driver, greatly improving the driving operation efficiency.
It is worth mentioning that this technology has been applied in Foton Auman's Galaxy series products.
In the future, it will also be equipped with new medium-duty truck products to meet truck drivers!
With its independently developed VCU, Foton Motor has not only set a new benchmark in the field of scientific and technological research and development of commercial vehicles, but also demonstrated its firm determination and strong strength on the road of independent innovation.
Looking to the future, Foton Motor will continue to uphold the spirit of technological innovation and continue to increase research and development.
