Pursuit for a Fully Autonomous Automotive - LiDAR Leads the Battlefield: Its Principles, Challenges, Trends and Perception System
Praveen Kumar KJ · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · 2020
The global automotive industry is always a fast growing and highly competitive field as every participant involved relentlessly thrives to achieve technological advancement of their product and solution to stand-out among the rest.Lately, the pursuit towards developing a fully autonomous car has intensified manifold among all the automakers because of the increasing need for advanced driving assistance and safety.In the era of AI advancements, self-driving cars is so much more challenging that most people expected.Autonomous vehicle requires L3 or higher level smart connected capability to function efficiently and LiDAR is at the forefront in serving the requirement.This paper is set to explicitly furnish all the technical and functional development of a number of LiDAR technologies in existence in the automotive ecosystem and also systemically distinguish and analyze each of them.In addition, this paper provides recent advancement and development of key automotive LiDAR technology, startups, trends and how far are we behind from reaching the ambition of becoming a permanent backseat driver.