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LiDAR – scan your world Autonomous Driving Meetup #5 Mathias Müller
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Page 1: Autonomous Driving Meetup #5 Mathias Müller · startup, 50 employees, break-even Dr. Florian Lenz CFO & HR 6 years strategy and risk consulting Dr. Sebastian Neusser Advisor & Patents

L i D A R – s c a n y o u r w o r l d

Autonomous Driving Meetup #5Mathias Müller

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Autonomous Driving –Transportation of the Future

New mobility models

fleet operators, shared cars

Enormous safety gain

no human errors

Time

freeing for

drivers

Supply and

logistics

redefined

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Laser Range Scanners (Lidar)

Essential sensor in autonomous cars

Gives 3D point-cloud ofenvironment

*see e.g. E. Ackerman: Cheap Lidar: The Key to Making Self-

Driving Cars Affordable, in IEEE Spectrum Magazine

Flex Lidar prototype data – person walking

Experts agree*

Driverless needs Lidar

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Sensor suite

LiDAR Radar Camera

3D Information + + +

Resolution + O O

Field of View + - O

Cost O + -

Color

Blickfeld GmbH | Confidential

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The ProblemLidar Technology Gap

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Products are

good in performance

but very expensive

not fully industrialized

have limited reliability

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Requirements

Use case motivated differences

> 100 m range

@ 10% reflectivity

0,1° horizontal angular resolution

0,1° vertical angular resolution

100° x 30° field of view

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Object

Lidar principle

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Object

3D scanning Lidar principle

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Object

3D flash Lidar principle

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3D Lidar enemies or whats the problem?

Cost

Daylight

Robustness

Cost

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„It‘s easy to build a lidar, it‘s hard to build a cheapreliable 3D lidar“

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Which wavelength?

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Efficient + low cost

Detectors

Light sources

Laser safety

=> 905 vs 1550 nm

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Fiber-laser

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905 vs 1550 nm

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Fiber-laser 1550 nm

vs

Laser-diode 905 nm

=> fiber lasers may be a solution for nextgeneration

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Object

Collimation problem

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Beam parameter product / Conservation of etendue

Liouville Theorem: “phase-space distribution function is constant along the trajectories of the system”

Min. 10 mm

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Object

Link budget

1 billion photons 1 billion photons10^12

0

5

10

Detected At detector At Lidar Reflected At object

1 photon

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Object

Daylight problem-> spacial filtering

daylight photons

1 billion photons

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Target

Crosstalk / spoofing

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Overall solution statement

Use off the shelf automotive grade components

Use 10+ mm aperture forCollimation problemEye safe link budget

Coaxial setup with spacial-filteringfor

Daylight problemCrosstalk/spoofing problem

Photon level coding forAdvanced spoofing problem

Building the 3D lidar boils down to:

Build a MEMS mirror solutionwith

>10 mm aperture / 100 mm² area

2D scanning directions

100° field of view

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MVP

Ethernet

ROS interface

15x7x7 cm

12V DC / 10W

Point cloudoutput

Solid state

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Blickfeld‘s 30 member team

Rolf WojtechSoftwareFounder of fos4X, 6 years lead software development

Dr. Florian Petit Business Development6 years in robotics research, ETH Zürich, DLR, Stanford Univ.

Dr. Mathias Müller CEO & RnDFounder & CTO of fos4X, sensor tech startup, 50 employees, break-even

Dr. Florian Lenz CFO & HR6 years strategy

and risk consulting

Dr. Sebastian Neusser Advisor & PatentsPatent attorneyPhysics background

Nicole KubeBD & Comm

9 yrs, Roland Berger, Zürich Versicherung

Timor KnudsenEmbedded SW

11 yrs, Magna

Florian SchmidtSoftware

15 yrs, robotics

Markus RauscherElektronics

5 yrs, optics, electronics

Dr. Jan KuypersMEMS

20 yrs MEMS leader

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Product Generation 2

100° field of view

>120 m range

1M data points / second

10-100 Hz adjustable frame rate

0,1° resolution

110 mm x 60 mm x 30 mm form factor

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