PRODUCT UPDATE: CES 2024 SPECIAL
LIDAR
AT512 and ET25 Hesai launched two new lidar systems: the AT512 and ET25. The firm’s new flagship AT512 ultra long-range ADAS lidar is a top-of- the-line system offered in a compact form factor. It targets automotive OEMs demanding the very best in performance, reliability and safety. The AT512 offers a range of 300m at 10% reflectivity, with a maximum range of over 400m and an exceptional 12.3 million points per second point-rate, resulting in a resolution point cloud of 2,400 x 512. The product’s sleek physical design measures just 160 x 100 x 45mm while offering a 120-degree horizontal field of view and a 25.6-degree vertical field of view. The firm’s second new innovation, the ultra-thin ET25 ADAS
lidar, is designed to be installed behind a vehicle’s windshield, making it much easier to integrate while helping maintain the vehicle aerodynamics and keeping the lidar clear of dirt and debris. The ET25 provides 250m of range at 10% reflectivity and received a 2024 CES Innovation Award for best new product.
www.hesaitech.com
Atlas Aeva unveiled Atlas at the show, which the company proudly hails as the ‘world’s first’ automotive- grade frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) 4D lidar for advanced driving automation in mass production vehicles. Atlas is powered by Aeva’s innovations in custom silicon technology, including the Aeva CoreVision, a next-generation lidar-on Chip module, and Aeva X1, a powerful new System-on-Chip (SoC) lidar processor. Together these innovations allow Atlas to be over 70% smaller and consume four times less power than Aeva’s previous generation lidar sensor, enabling operation without active cooling and allowing for seamless integrations in- cabin behind the windshield, on the vehicle’s roofline or in the grille. Atlas enables automated vehicles to unlock new levels of safety and
vehicle automation by detecting objects faster, farther away, and with higher confidence – instantaneously discriminating between static and dynamic points and knowing the precise velocity of dynamic objects. The lidar delivers critical requirements for highway-speed driving with a 25% greater detection range for low-reflectivity targets and a maximum detection range of up to 500m. Atlas sensors are also immune to interference from direct sunlight, signals from other lidar sensors, and from retro-reflective objects such as street signs, enabling clear perception across a wide variety of everyday driving scenarios. Aeva expects to release Atlas for production consumer and commercial vehicles starting in 2025.
www.aeva.com
M2 and M3 sensors RoboSense unveiled its latest M Platform line of sensors, including the M2 mid-range lidar, and the M3 long-range lidar.
The M3 uses 940nm wavelengths
and delivers a range of 300m at 10% reflectivity and 0.05° x 0.05° angular resolution within the region of interest (ROI) to detect smaller objects at longer distances. The sensor is primarily designed to advance safe, intelligent driving systems for global OEM and Tier 1 Level 3 (L3) or higher vehicles. The M3’s ability to detect long-distance objects can meet customers’ needs for L3 functionality at up to 120km/hour, advancing safety and autonomous features. The M2 leverages proprietary 2D scanning technology and MEMS chips to achieve a range of 200m at 10% reflectivity and angular resolution of 0.1° x 0.1° in its ROI. The M2 maintains the same interface and design as its predecessors, the M1/M1 Plus, making the switch seamless for customers without costly redesign or project development delays.
As of December 2023, RoboSense has obtained 62 vehicle model design wins and successfully assisted 12 OEMs and Tier 1 customers in starting the large-scale mass production delivery of 24 models.
www.robosense.ai
Sahara, Borrego and Moab PreAct Technologies (PreAct) debuted a line of new flash lidar sensors – Sahara, Borrego and Moab – which it says provides the near field sensing market a better alternative to the existing technologies being used today. With a footprint of 110mm x 45mm x 33mm,
the company’s Sahara sensor is intended for outdoor applications that require up to 20m sensing capabilities, such as robotics, automotive, trucking and university research. The Borrego sensor provides long, narrow space coverage for security, logistics and agriculture applications – for example determining the volume of a cargo container. The ‘out of the way’ design has a protective
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Eyeonic Vision System Mini SiLC Technologies (SiLC) demonstrated its new Eyeonic Vision System Mini (Eyeonic Mini), an innovative system integrating a full four-channel frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar on a single silicon photonics chip, with an integrated FMCW lidar System-on-Chip (SoC). Utilising the iND83301 (‘Surya’), a purpose-built digital lidar processor SoC developed by indie Semiconductor, the
Eyeonic Mini achieves an exceptional level of detail, delivering an order of magnitude greater precision than existing technologies while being one- third the size of last year’s model. SiLC’s Eyeonic Vision Chip, central to the system, amalgamates all essential photonics functions into a coherent vision sensor, delivering a compact solution that meets the demands for performance, affordability and low-power consumption. The system’s exceptional accuracy equips robots with sub-millimeter depth precision from distances exceeding 10m. As an application example, an AI-driven palletising robot equipped with
the Eyeonic Mini could fully view and interact with pallets, optimising package placement and loading onto trucks with efficiency and safety.
www.silc.com
mounting secured behind a support beam, positioning Borrego to not be an obstruction to precious cargo or draw attention. Combining lidar and AI, the Moab is best
suited for education, healthcare, smart cities, ITS, agriculture, retail, security applications. It is an impressive list of application possibilities, and Moab supports wireless communication (4G LTE, WIFI) and multiple I/O (Ethernet, USB-C), and can stand up to industrial indoor applications. The AI-on-the-edge capability extends its applications to people counting in retail settings, inventory management, public transportation monitoring for safety, patient monitoring, and more.
www.preact-tech.com
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