Autonomous Driving
The automotive industry is changing faster than ever before. As the responsibility for control of vehicles passes from humans to machines, so greater responsibility for safety passes from drivers to manufacturers. Elegant technology solutions are required to deliver safe and reliable systems at automotive cost points.
There has been huge investment in the development of new hardware and software to replace all the functions of a human driver. While fully autonomous cars and trucks remain several years from realisation, the adoption of advanced driver assistance systems is ramping already.
Multiple sensor modalities are required for vehicles to perceive their environment and become autonomous. Most autonomous systems rely on redundant sensing from cameras, radar and lidar to enable vehicles to operate in all environmental conditions. To do so requires a system-level approach, not just focusing on individual sensors but also their integration and the ancillary technologies required to keep sensors 100% available.
While cameras, lidars and radars are not new modalities, the requirements for autonomous driving have prompted significant technology development. The biggest challenge in developing successful products is adapting technologies developed for high-value low-volume products to automotive cost and quality requirements. Often the sensors need to be stripped back to the fundamentals then tightly integrated to hit cost and quality targets.
Leveraging highly integrated multidisciplinary teams, TTP helps sensor developers and integrators to solve these complex challenges.
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