Project description
Improved automated transport sensors
Automated public and private transport have seen increased interest in recent years, but the lack of efficient sensors has led to more demand for novel solutions. Current sensor technologies for automated vehicles in urban environments have shown promise but still lack efficiency, with high injuries and casualties to undetected pedestrians and cyclists and a high cost. The EU-funded F3D-Fastsight-PoC project aims to change that by introducing its novel sensor technology for automated transport. This technology will utilise flash Light detection and ranging camera modules that operate similarly to a camera and allow for much more efficient detection of pedestrians, cyclists, surroundings, and situation awareness.
Objective
We aim at introducing novel 3D imaging sensors for spatial awareness in urban driving environments. No industrial scale technology is ready and cost-effective to detect pedestrians, cyclists who still are victims of the highest number of injuries and casualties. We will bring a breakthrough price/performance that enable ubiquitous deployment in the cheapest vehicle and urban infrastructure.
Our single-chip directly measures distance of surrounding obstacles nearby in real-time, allowing to avoid collision, navigation, and ultimately providing awareness of the situations for task-automation. Our product is a flash Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) camera-module. It is composed of an illumination source, a detector, and all the necessary electronics to orchestrate the camera operation and pre-processing. We have developed large photo-detectors in consumer electronics and operate in a similar way to a camera.
The proposal aims at initiating the market introduction while we are still performing the last phases of R&D. The approach is to evaluate the appropriate joint development opportunities with one of the European automotive industry players that we have approached and validate the specification and target use cases. At the end of the 6-month project we should have validated specifications, development steps and at least a Memorandum of Understanding for such cooperation.
We have already validated the concept, protected the technology with 14 patents, delivered several engineering projects worldwide and believe that the project, while challenging, has a breakthrough potential. We have preliminary support from semi-conductor, photonics an automotive players.
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- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
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Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
1024 ECUBLENS VD
Switzerland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.