An employee with Hyundai Mobis is test-operating the deep learning-enabled interactive development paper search robot “MAIBOT.”

Hyundai Mobis is accelerating efforts to develop software for such future technologies as self-driving automobiles using AI and connected cars. The company also plans to raise work efficiency, safety and reliability utilizing AI technologies.

Hyundai Mobis has introduced the AI-based software certification system “Mobis Artificial Intelligence Software Testing” (MAIST) and the deep learning-enabled interactive development paper search robot “MAIBOT.”
MAIST is an AI-enabled system that performs software verification instead of researchers. It is capable of verifying all computing processes for software based on an algorithm designed by researchers.

Conventional manual work will be automated. Hyundai Mobis, which has declared its intention to change into a software-oriented company, has been scrambling to introduce AI, the much-touted technology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ahead of other rivals. It had been rare that Hyundai Mobis, an automotive parts maker, employed AI in the course of car software development, not ICT companies. Hyundai Mobis plans to expand AI technology to future R&D processes to ramp up competitiveness of self-driving and connected cars.

MAIST, jointly developed by Hundai Mobis and Prof. Kim Moon-joo of KAIST, will adapt to rising software use for the production of cars. The global consulting company Mckinsey and Company forecast that the software portion for each car will surge from current 10 percent to up to 30 percent by 2030.

Hyundai Mobis said a pilot project to verify the Integrated Body Unit (IBU) and Surround View Monitoring system (SVM) saw software verification done by MAIST stand at 53 percent and 70 percent, respectively. The IBU integrates the 4 electronic control units (ECU), i.e. BCM, smart key, TPMS, and PAS, one.

A surround view monitoring system is designed to display views from the sky. (Photos: Hyundai Mobis)

The company plans to expand the employment of the MAIST to all software-enabled electronic components. It will be expanded to cover not only core automotive parts like brakes and lighting but also research, including self-driving, ADAS and environmentally-friendly cars. It will be also applied to Hyundai Mobis’s laboratory in India, the company’s global software research center.

The MAIBOT will enable to search software development materials standing at as whopping as 200,000 cases instead of researchers. The deep learning robot will get smarter as the more deep-learning database will be filed up. The robot has already learned largos about automobiles.

The MAIBOT will be expanded to cover major worksites, and it will be made available to search diverse company information.