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Luis Dussan, Founder & CEOToday, AEye’s advanced vision hardware, software, and algorithms act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. The company has created the world’s first intelligent artificial perception system, and is on a mission to streamline autonomous vehicle path planning and decision-making to ensure the safe rollout of autonomous vehicles.
In its quest to not only meet - but exceed human perception - AEye is constantly innovating: the company demonstrated the industry’s first solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013. Since then, the AEye team has regularly pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing, leading to its core product offering, the AE100TM. The AE100 is a solid state, cost-optimized robotic perception system based on AEye’s iDARTM (Intelligent Detection and Ranging) technology. iDAR fuses agile LiDAR, computer vision, and artificial intelligence (AI) in order to deliver unprecedented advancements in perception and motion planning for ADAS and autonomous vehicles.
iDAR required that AEye create a new form of sensor that pre-fuses an agile LiDAR sensor with an HD camera. The resulting solution intelligently scans a scene to identify and interrogate important objects – classifying and prioritizing critical information in near real-time. This improves the speed and accuracy of perception information, while radically reducing the time and processing power required to analyze sensor data.
This is the first time that perception sensing modality and the perception stack has been fully integrated from the ground up
In pre-fusing and bore-sighting the 2D camera data with 3D agile LiDAR data, AEye is able to apply computer vision algorithms at the sensor, and analyze each pixel/voxel combination (called a Vixel) hundreds of times each second – interrogating objects in detail at distances of more than 300 meters. iDAR’s agility and intelligence lies in its ability to control various parameters such as pulse energy, placement, resolution, update rate, and pulse modulation schemes via AEye’s software.
AEye is continuously educating customers on what is possible with iDAR. Dussan recalls an instance when one of the company’s biggest clients was not satisfied with Velodyne’s LiDAR sensors, due to stated issues with range, coverage and interference. AEye showed them its process of intelligent data capture, then developed algorithms for them that solved their problems, giving them new perception and path-planning capabilities. AEye was also able to ease their transition to its iDAR system by emulating Velodyne’s pattern. This enabled the client to maintain backward compatibility with their existing software stack, while incrementally adding new features and functionality provided by iDAR. The result was better LiDAR performance and more accurate vision data - all in an integrated intelligent platform.
On tap, AEye is releasing its AE100 product to OEM and Tier 1 partners, followed by the release of its software development kit (SDK). The kit will enable automotive partners to further enhance and extend AEye’s iDAR platform with their own algorithms and perception software. AEye says the future is in these algorithms and the perception-level software the company develops on top of them in order to optimize the datasets delivered to path-planning software.
AEye’s Ultra-Long Range Automated Incident Detection (AID) Solution Wins Best of ITS Award at ITS America
Friday, May 05, 2023
AEye – in Partnership with the Minnesota Department of Transportation and VSI Labs – Recognized for State-of-the-Art Vehicle Monitoring Solution that Helps Agencies Better Track and Respond to Traffic Flow and Incidents
DUBLIN, Calif: AEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIDR), a global leader in adaptive, high-performance lidar solutions, today announced it has been awarded Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s (ITS America) Best of ITS Award for its Ultra-Long Range Automated Incident Detection (AID) project with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and VSI Labs. The three entities partnered to validate that AEye’s 4Sight™ M lidar can provide reliable detection, even in harsh Minnesota winter weather conditions, at 800 meter range – performance that exceeds existing AID application expectations and pushes the baseline standard of ITS safety.
“Transportation technologies that detect incidents on highways can help reduce response and clearing times and road congestion, but have clear limitations,” said Tara Olds, Director of Connected and Automated Vehicles at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. “It’s important for us to continually advance our technology tools in order to improve roadway safety, and AEye’s lidar is an example of how they are pushing the industry, even in the most challenging weather conditions.”
For the project, AEye partnered with MnROAD, the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s cold-weather pavement testing facility, and VSI Labs, to test AEye 4Sight M lidar sensors on Interstate 94. While MnDOT currently uses cameras to obtain analytics on the flow of traffic on this corridor, the 4Sight M lidar sensor offers greater precision when it comes to speeds, lane positioning, number of axles, and even load profiles. In addition, AEye’s AID solution provides superior performance in poor weather, and is able to detect incidents at distances up to one kilometer.
“The testing shows that AEye’s 4Sight M lidar offers longer range detection and greater accuracy compared to cameras, radars, or other roadway monitoring solutions,” said Akram Benmbarek, AEye’s VP of Strategic Initiatives. “With improved analytics and intelligence derived from this lidar data, agencies like MnDOT can better track and respond to traffic flow and incidents. We’re honored to be recognized by ITS America, and to play a part in helping municipalities reduce congestion, prevent accidents, and realize cost savings.”
“VSI Labs was delighted to support this project,” said Phil Magney, Founder and President of VSI Labs. “Being based in Minnesota, we have a particular interest in helping agencies like MnDOT deploy new solutions that improve the performance and safety of the transportation network.”
AEye’s 4Sight M is a high-resolution, ultra-long range lidar sensor, which enables increased coverage with fewer sensors, lowering the cost of materials, installation, and maintenance over the lifespan of the system, while improving data collection quality and reliability. It enables traffic managers and emergency vehicles to respond quickly to a collision and drivers to travel more safely by warning them of hazardous conditions on the road that may not be immediately visible.
AEye’s lidar sensor leverages AEye’s 4Sight™ Intelligent Sensing Platform to better locate, identify, classify, and track objects. This allows for improved data collection speed and quality, ensuring that more accurate information is used to drive decisions and improve highway safety, as well as reduce traffic congestion and maintenance costs. AEye’s all-in-one solution comes complete with a library of optimized high-resolution scan patterns to tackle the unique requirements of AID applications.
ITS America is the country’s leading organization to advance transportation technology. Its Best of ITS awards recognize innovative projects which best advance ITS to benefit communities.
AEye Announces Partnership with Leading Automotive Electronics and Vision Solutions Provider, LITEON
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
DUBLIN - AEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIDR), announced that the non-binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) announced in March is with LITEON Technology Corporation and is intended to provide AEye with a customer channel and industrialization partnership. Both companies will work together to supply AEye’s 4Sight™-based lidar products to automotive original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) who are focused on safety through automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (“ADAS”). This is a logical collaboration as AEye continues to focus on its unique capital light business model, which leverages automotive Tier 1 partnerships to deliver AEye’s lidar solutions to OEMs through world-class pipelines.
Matt Fisch, AEye CEO, said, “We believe that LITEON is an ideal partner for us. Their innovative spirit, vast experience in providing solutions to the automotive ADAS market, combined with their cutting-edge industrialization capability will enable us to provide the industry’s leading long-range lidar solutions at a very competitive cost to our customers. We are already collaborating on the OEM RFI/RFQ pipeline and I’m enthusiastic about our combined ability to capture a significant portion of the market.”
LITEON is a leading, global provider of electronic solutions for automotive OEMs around the world. With over four decades of expertise in the automotive electronics industry, LITEON harnesses its core competencies in optoelectronics and power management to pioneer the future of automotive electronics. Leveraging their various manufacturing facilities, LITEON supplies services from design to manufacturing to most of the top Tier 1s and OEMs in Europe and North America.
The companies are excited about this new chapter and look forward to partnering to bring AEye’s 4Sight solution to the automotive market. This partnership is poised to pioneer the industry, leveraging their unique expertise to propel the future of autonomous driving.
Company
AEye
Management
Luis Dussan, Founder & CEO
Description
Develops advanced vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as
the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles
