Ugo

One autonomous driver, built for the bus.

Ugo is autonomous driving software plus a retrofit kit that interfaces with the vehicle. It is designed for the city buses operators already own, starting on fixed routes.

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Explore the Ugo sensor suite.

Select a point on the vehicle or a system below. Rotate the model to see how perception, localization, compute and control fit together.

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Three-quarter concept rendering of the Ugo-equipped city bus

The interactive model is unavailable. The complete sensor suite is described below.

Illustrative concept. Sensor locations and vehicle integration are under development; the model is not a validated specification.

Two parts, one driver.

Driving software

Localization, perception, prediction, planning and control, tuned for fixed-route city buses: stops, docking, turns and the road users around them.

Retrofit kit

LiDAR, cameras, radar and close-range sensors; GNSS and motion sensing; onboard compute; and an interface to the vehicle’s steering, braking and propulsion. Off-the-shelf hardware wherever possible.

How it drives.

  1. Sense

    LiDAR, cameras, radar, ultrasonics, GNSS and motion sensing build a picture of the bus and the street around it.

  2. Plan

    The software places the bus on a map of the route, predicts what other road users will do next and plans a safe path and speed.

  3. Act

    Through the retrofit kit, the plan becomes steering, braking and propulsion commands on the vehicle itself.

Which buses first.

We start with newer low-floor city buses, where braking and propulsion are already electronic. Battery-electric fleets are the natural first target.

Each vehicle model is qualified once. That work then carries across every bus of the same model in a fleet, which is what turns one integration into a route, and one route into many.

We don’t build buses and we don’t run fleets. Operators keep their vehicles and depots; Ugo adds the driver.

See how the software is built and tested.