NVIDIA Halos™ is a full-stack, comprehensive safety system that unifies vehicle architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure the safe development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) from cloud to car. The system covers the full development lifecycle with design-time, deployment-time, and validation-time guardrails that collectively build safety and explainability into AI-based AV stacks. These guardrails are implemented using three powerful computers—NVIDIA DGX™ for AI training, NVIDIA Omniverse™ and Cosmos™ for simulation, and NVIDIA AGX™ for deployment. NVIDIA Halos complements existing industry-standard safety practices, while introducing unique elements for autonomous vehicles. This ensures regulatory compliance and advances safe and reliable AV stacks, together with NVIDIA’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab. Halos is also extending its comprehensive safety framework beyond AVs to robotics, further enhancing the reliability and safety of intelligent systems.

Features

• NVIDIA DGX: Design-time safety guardrails for built-in hardware/software safety and trustworthy development processes.
• NVIDIA Omniverse with Cosmos: Validation-time guardrails for data generation, simulation, evaluation, and lifelong safety assurances.
• NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™: Deployment-time guardrails for run-time monitoring and real-time introspection.
• AI Systems Inspection Lab: Allows customers and ecosystem partners to verify the safe integration of their products with NVIDIA Halos elements.
• Comprehensive Safety Framework: Extends beyond AVs to robotics, enhancing the reliability and safety of intelligent systems.

Benefits

• AI-Driven AV Safety: Ensures AI-driven AV systems are safe and secure.
• Regulatory Compliance: Meets industry safety standards and regulatory requirements.
• Enhanced Reliability: Provides a robust foundation for autonomous driving systems.
• Customizable Safety Elements: Open to developers for adoption or customization to drive safe and reliable AV technology.
• Continuous Improvement: Supports iterative improvement for automated driving systems.