Officials from both companies are posing for a commemorative photo. (Photo courtesy of LG Uplus)



Based on big data and AI… Emergency recovery of broken-down vehicles possible
Participation in autonomous driving demonstration projects, technology verification plan

LG Uplus and ACE Lab are developing a system that uses big data and AI to detect software and hardware abnormalities in autonomous vehicles in the cloud and notifies autonomous mobility service operators.

LG Uplus announced on the 21st that it is developing next-generation technology to diagnose abnormalities in autonomous vehicles based on big data and AI, together with autonomous driving solution company Ace Lab.

Once this technology reaches the commercialization stage, it is expected to enable not only the emergency recovery of malfunctioning autonomous vehicles with diagnosed issues but also unmanned driving services in hazardous areas.

Both companies plan to complete the development of autonomous vehicle anomaly diagnosis technology by the third quarter of this year and incorporate it into demonstration projects.

Through this, we plan to expand cooperation to realize much safer autonomous driving than now and provide differentiated autonomous driving services.

LG Uplus and ACE Lab are leading domestic autonomous driving technology innovation by showcasing their capabilities in developing autonomous driving technology, such as the world's first successful urban driving of an autonomous vehicle using a 5G communication network in March 2019 and the first automatic parking of an autonomous vehicle using 5G communication in December 2020.

In particular, LG Uplus [assists] autonomous vehicles [using] sensors such as LiDAR, radar, and camerasWe have developed technology to process various types of data transmitted over time quickly and stably.

At the Seoul Smart Mobility Expo last June, a technology that converts and compresses large-capacity autonomous driving data in real time and transmits it to the cloud via a 5G network in the 3.5 GHz frequency band, as well as demonstration cases utilizing this technology, were unveiled.

ACE Lab is developing top-tier autonomous driving software by integrating LG Uplus's big data technology into autonomous vehicles, enabling real-time remote debugging, autonomous driving data classification, and search.

Choi Chang-kook, Head of LG Uplus’s Next-Generation Technology Lab, stated, “We will accelerate the development of autonomous driving-related technologies to gain momentum for our core smart mobility business,” adding, “This year, we plan to actively participate in autonomous driving demonstration projects led by local governments.”