25 Talks, Two Panel Sessions at DVN LiDAR Conference
The second DVN LiDAR Conference is only just under two weeks away, now! It’s to be held in Frankfurt on 2–3 December, and this year we have an exceptional docket…
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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.
Second DVN Conference on Automotive LiDAR
The themes of the second DVN LiDAR Conference are Applications, Technology, Integration in lighting, Optics, and Cleaning. After the registration and welcome lunch, the conference will start Monday 2 December at 1:30pm with a keynote speech by Dr. Mircea Gradu (photo), Velodyne Lidar’s Senior VP of Quality and Validation (and past President and Board Chairman…
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Reworked Tokyo Show Beats Attendance Target
More than 1.3 million people visited this year’s Tokyo Motor Show, reinvented by Toyota’s Akio Toyoda. Toyoda—who also chairs the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association, who organise the show—set a target of 1 million visitors in a bid to reverse the show’s declining popularity over the last decade (which has been the trend at the world’s…
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Advanced Thermal’s New Ultra-Cool Heat Sinks
Advanced Thermal Solutions have announced a range of ultra high performance heat sinks for cooling high powered CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors. The Ultra-Cool family includes active heat sinks with integral blowers, as well as passive heat sinks that use available airflow. The active heat sinks, called DualFLOW and QuadFLOW, are designed for use…
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Everlight’s SmartLED
Component makers are working to design products that can mesh with the current trends toward embedded intelligence. Everlight, a member of the ISELED alliance, now present theirXI3040-RGBIC0251L-AM SmartLED package. It has a dimension of 3.0 × 4.1 × 0.9 mm. The control IC embedded within this package is Inova Semiconductor’s INLC100D. With inbuilt temperature compensation…
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CES Innovation Award for Koito BladeScan ADB
Koito’s BladeScanADB system has won a CES 2020 Innovation Award. The Innovation Awards, sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association, are given to companies exhibiting at CES. The BladeScan system emits LED light to two fast-spinning blade mirrors and provides light for driving by taking advantage of human persistence of vision. Principle of BladeScan From 12…
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Autonomous Rear Emergency Braking From Mobis
Hyundai Mobis have a new rear autonomous emergency braking system (R-AEB) which prevents collisions when vehicles are reversing. The system uses ultra-short-range radar (USRR), a first in the automotive industry, rather than a combination of camera and ultrasonic sensors used in existing systems. Compared to ultrasonic systems, the USRR is unaffected by wind and costs…
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Different Types of Lidar Technologies
Lidar technology—using lighting to detect, range, and image targeted areas and objects—is widely seen as critical for autonomous driving. Lidar can be divided into different categories including scanning lidar and flash lidar. Conventionally scanning lidar uses mechanical rotation to spin the sensor for 360° detection. Lidar with mechanical rotation enables high speed scanning and is…
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CES Innovation Awards for Numerous Car Lidar Products
In the list of CES 2020 Innovation Award Honoree, several lidar products were named including Cube by Blickfeld, Helius Smart Lidar System by Cepton, Leddar Pixell by LeddarTech, and RS-LiDAR-M1 by RoboSense. Blickfeld, LeddarTech and RoboSense were listed in the category of “Vehicle Intelligence & Transportation,” while Cepton was named in two categories, “Smart Cities,”…
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Signify’s Trulifi to Spread to Buses
Signify have been actively expanding their LiFi services via coöperation with partners in different fields to provide reliable, secure and fast connectivity everywhere. The company announced a pilot project with Ellamp, an Italian maker of interior systems and components for public and private road and rail transport, to provide Trulifi systems for buses—a move that…
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