Researchers have developed a new type of lidar system that can do much more than traditional versions. In a single ...

Object detection is one of the most important tasks that needs to be handled robustly and accurately in autonomous driving. Understanding the driving environment is a prerequisite for safe path ...

The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by developments in artificial technology and machine learning, and growing importance of technologies such as ...

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective fanbases about what the right sensor ...

Autonomous vehicles, often known as self-driving cars, have emerged as a disruptive technology with the promise of safer, more efficient, and convenient transportation. The existing works provide ...

Robots and autonomous vehicles can use 3D point clouds from LiDAR sensors and camera images to perform 3D object detection. However, current techniques that combine both types of data struggle to ...

However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Companies that manufacture autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, delivery robots and drones may benefit from a patent-pending Purdue University innovation that outperforms ...

Five years ago, Eric Aguilar was fed up. He had worked on lidar and other sensors for years at Tesla and Google X, but the technology always seemed too expensive and, more importantly, unreliable. He ...

Researchers have engineered the ultimate nemesis of self-driving cars: mirror-adorned traffic cones. In a series of tests highlighted by The Register, a team from France and Germany showed that their ...

Why LiDAR placement is essential for developing safe self-driving cars. How automakers need to incorporate LiDAR placement into the design phase of vehicle development. LiDAR is a three-dimensional ...

The proposed model adopts innovative strategies that enable it to accurately combine 3D LiDAR data with 2D images, leading to a significantly better performance than state-of-the-art models for small ...