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I've seen the Conti ASC promos but they haven't posted the range on the solid state lidar's. I was veeery excited about the tech, but from what I understand it'
by RealityVoid 8y ago
I've seen the Conti ASC promos but they haven't posted the range on the solid state lidar's. I was veeery excited about the tech, but from what I understand it's very hard directing the laser of a high enough intensity to implement this in a usefull way.
- Animats 8y agoAbout 200m in the older ASC models.[1] There's a tradeoff between field of view and range, depending on lens option. It's likely that a vehicle would have a pair of forward looking units, a narrow beam long range one and a wide beam short range unit. Advanced Scientific Concepts has been making good flash LIDAR units for years, price point around $100K. Continental acquired ASC and their team, and is transitioning this from a handmade product made by PhDs in Santa Monica, CA into a volume product made like an German auto part. I saw the original optical bench prototype back in 2003 when we were preparing for the original DARPA Grand Challenge. They aimed it out a garage door into a sunlit parking lot and took 3D images. But it wasn't portable back then, so we couldn't use it. [1] http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/products/overview.html http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/products/overview....
- RealityVoid 8y agoAccording to Wikipedia, Velodyne radars have a range of about 120m. If ASC managed to get 200M that is hella impressive. I did hear that their tech has some gotcha's keeping it from series production but it's not really clear to me what is _really_ happening. I do think if they manage to launch this at an acceptable price range it's going to be a big thing.