The companies building tomorrow’s autonomous vehicle sensors are looking to go beyond current radar and camera limitations to identify obstacles and eliminate car crashes, greatly improving the safety of automated driving systems.
The most important criterion for autonomous vehicles is safety. To ensure this, a completely safe perception of the surrounding environment must be the first step.
Camera and radar systems are widely used as the conventional active safety sensors for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADASs), however these sensors have limitations. For example, cameras don’t work well under bad ambient light conditions, and radar has limitations in detecting stationary obstacles.