Lidar developer RoboSense have been contracted to supply their newly developed solid-state lidar sensor, the RS-LiDAR-M1, as part of a next-generation autonomous driving system being developed by Chinese auto maker First Automobile Works (FAW).
According to RoboSense, the new sensor is the world’s first and only unitised MEMS-based smart lidar sensor for self-driving passenger vehicles, with its own embedded AI algorithm and system on a chip (SoC) architecture. It transforms a traditional lidar system into a full data analysis and comprehension system, collecting and interpreting high definition 3D point cloud data, while also processing road data in real-time and synchronising outputs of high-precision localisation; obstacle, road curb and driving area detection, tracking and classification.
Fengjun Li, director of FAW’s Intelligent Connected Vehicle Development Institute, says “Our coöperation with RoboSense demonstrates our confidence in using a smart lidar sensor for Level 3 autonomy and above, and accelerates the commercialised development of our proprietary next-generation autonomous driving system”.
