Autonomous vehicles get 'x-ray' vision
Researchers in Australia claim to have developed a technology that gives autonomous vehicles ‘x-ray vision’ to detect pedestrians and cyclists in blind spots.
The technology is said to allow autonomous vehicles to track running pedestrians hidden behind buildings and cyclists obscured by larger cars, trucks and buses.
Funded by the iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre, the three-year project involved collaboration between the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics and Australian connected vehicle solutions company Cohda Wireless.
Cohda is commercialising the technology's applications, which involve an emerging technology for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) called cooperative or collective perception (CP).
Using ‘ITS stations’ — roadside ITS information-sharing units equipped with additional sensors such as cameras and Lidar — vehicles can share what they ‘see’ using vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication. Researchers believe that the technology will benefit all vehicles, not just those connected to the system.
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