Innovation Award: Hesai ET25
The ET25 is Hesai’s latest ultra-thin automotive lidar sensor for mass-market ADAS. Powerful, slim, and quiet, it provides automakers with more possibilities for ADAS applications. It is only 25 mm thick, making it ideal for rooftop and behind-the-windshield installation. It offers up to 250 meters’ range without a windshield in front of it, with the finest angular resolution reaching 0.05° × 0.05°. The sensor uses just 12 W of power, and at under 25 dB, its noise level is less than that of a quiet library.
Innovation Award: Lumotive LM10
Lumotive’s LM10 is the first production offering of their groundbreaking Light Control Metasurface technology, which provides truly solid-state digital beam steering for superior optical 3D sensing performance. As an optical semiconductor made using widely-adopted silicon manufacturing processes, the LM10 overcomes all the cost, size, and reliability limitations of traditional mechanical lidar.
Innovation Award: InnovizCore
InnovizCore is Innoviz’ advanced automotive-grade hardware and AI platform for L2+ through L5 autonomous vehicles. The AI-powered platform includes:
- A powerful system-on- chip processor for executing computer vision algorithms, 3D mapping, localization, real-time driving decisions and many more features;
- Perception software that processes the raw point cloud data from the lidar and performs object and obstacle detection and classification, as well as range estimation, and
- The industry’s first lidar-based Minimal Risk Maneuver (MRM) system that supports the transition phase between autonomous and manual driving.
Innovation Award: Valeo Scala3
Valeo’s 3rd-generation Scala lidar perception system is an automotive-grade high resolution sensor, allowing advanced perception in all conditions meeting the highest automotive industry quality and safety standards.
The high density point cloud and associated AI-based perception software enable high speed autonomous driving on highways in a wider range of conditions, increasing the capabilities of L3 systems by dint of a large extension of their domain of operation, and the scalability of L4 robotaxi fleets.
Worth the Walk: Automotive Lidar Exhibitors of Note at CES ’24
Canatu, in West Hall booth 4065,will demonstrate their most advanced film heaters for lidar and camera sensor thawing and defogging, enabling autonomous driving in harsh weather.
Canatu will once again partner with other companies to showcase joint developments improving driving safety and comfort. Stay tuned for more details on the partners and demos as the event approaches. Meanwhile, this year’s highlights will include a film heater demonstrator for ADAS cameras positioned behind the windshield, developed by Denso—it’s integrated into the windshield by laminating it onto the inner glass surface using optically clear adhesive. There’ll be a film inserts moulded lidar heater using Covestro Makrolon PC resin and Makrofol PC film, featuring high IR transmittance, high heating performance, and excellent processing. And showgoers will also see a film heater demonstrator for lidar cover glass, using the Canatu film heater, which is sandwiched between two interlayers.
RoboSense, in West Hall, booth 5172, will unveil the newest in their M Platform sensor range.
Aeva, in West Hall booth 6841, will showcase the world’s first automotive-grade FMCW 4D lidar for advanced driving automation in mass-production vehicles. Aeva will also demonstrate their commercially-available Aeries II 4D lidar technology for automotive applications, demonstrate its micron-precise industrial metrology sensing technology for industrial applications, and provide a preview of May Mobility’s Aeva-equipped autonomous vehicle platform.
