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Outrider deploys reinforcement learning AI to enhance distribution yard throughput


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Jan 23, 2025, 11:25 ET

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Increases path planning speed by 10x for autonomous yard trucks

BRIGHTON, Colo., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Outrider, the leader in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, announces its industry-first deployment of advanced reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to maximize freight throughput at customer sites. Outrider's RL models increase path planning speed by 10x and enable the Outrider System to move freight more efficiently and safely through busy, complex distribution yards.

"Using the latest advances in AI, Outrider is continually decreasing the turn time of trailers moved autonomously in logistics yards," said Vittorio Ziparo, CTO and Executive Vice President of Engineering. "By training and evaluating our system performance with RL in simulation and real-world scenarios, our customers see incremental improvements in speed and efficiency with our technology."

Logistics-dependent enterprises in package shipping, e-commerce and retail, consumer packaged goods, and manufacturing are looking to automate the repetitive, manual tasks in logistics yards to increase efficiency and improve safety. By utilizing RL, Outrider is enabling customers to realize the benefits of AI in the physical world more quickly. "Our partnerships with priority customers are facilitating these major industry advancements," added Ziparo.

Outrider's AI-driven capabilities are complemented by industry-first redundant safety mechanisms, merging the benefits of AI with traditional functional safety approaches used for industrial operations. Outrider has addressed over 200,000 safety scenarios, and multiple third-party safety experts and Fortune 500 customers have validated its safety case.

RL techniques involve creating a model that improves decision making over time. Using years of data samples of behaviors, Outrider developed an RL curriculum of increasing difficulty for the model to learn. This technique reinforces preferred behaviors, such as following traffic rules and maintaining safe distances from other vehicles, and discourages undesirable behaviors. Once the RL models are tested extensively in simulation and on-vehicle at Outrider's Advanced Testing Facility, the model and code are deployed into autonomous operations at customer sites.

"Our Fortune 500 customers' yards are complex, with hundreds of trucks, trailers, other vehicles, and pedestrians operating onsite daily," added Ziparo. "RL is critical to automating these yards at scale because it enables our commercial system to handle increasingly complex and diverse environments – from distribution and manufacturing yards to intermodal and port terminals."

Outrider's RL techniques leverage millions of proprietary, yard-specific data points collected and labeled across various large, complex distribution yards in multiple industries. These data points feed Outrider's state-of-the-art proprietary deep learning (DL) and RL models to create neural networks that automate yard tasks with increasing intelligence, precision, and speed.

Processing these data points through DL and RL models requires sophisticated computing hardware and a cost-effective hybrid cloud training environment that leverages public and private AI clouds. Outrider's private AI cloud deployment utilizes NVIDIA's DGX H200 GPUs installed at a secure, Denver-based data center owned and operated by Equinix.

"When dealing with exponentially increasing amounts of data to train DL and RL models, processing speed and training velocity per dollar spent matters," said Tom Baroch, Senior Director of Global Partnerships. "NVIDIA, an investor in Outrider, helped us secure the cutting-edge hardware necessary to double our DL training speed and we deployed the hybrid cloud training environment, which increased training velocity per dollar by six times. Taking this approach, Outrider delivers even greater value sooner to our customers."

Using RL further complements Outrider's many industry firsts and patented innovations that facilitate fully autonomous trailer moves, including hitching, backing, trailer brake line connection, yard inventory tracking, and integration with warehouse, yard, and transportation management systems.

Outrider is the first-to-market yard automation solution that performs fully autonomous, zero-emission trailer moves. The company's deployment of RL models bookends a year full of accomplishments. Highlights of 2024 include securing multiple patent grants and announcing a $62 million Series D financing round.

About Outrider®
Outrider, the leader in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider works with logistics-dependent enterprises to eliminate manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider's mission is to drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. With its customers representing over 20 percent of all yard trucks operating in North America, Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, FM Capital, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit http://www.outrider.ai.

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Abby Veach, Outrider, 5127748886, [email protected], https://www.outrider.ai/

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