[car home? News]? A few days ago, according to overseas media reports, on October 12, Velodyne, a laser radar manufacturer, announced that it had reached a three-year supply agreement with Baidu, which would provide Baidu with Alpha for autonomous driving applications. Prime lidar sensor. Velodyne's sensor has low cost and large scale of mass production, which has become an important factor for Baidu and Apollo project suppliers. Baidu Apollo project is an open source autopilot software platform. Choose Alpha? The main factor of Prime lidar sensor lies in its long detection distance, high resolution and wide field of view, which can meet the high performance requirements of autonomous vehicles. After all, high-quality 3D lidar sensor is an important component for autonomous vehicles to accurately perceive the surrounding environment. Alpha? Prime lidar sensor uses 128 laser channels, which can generate millions of data points per second and continuously generate 3D lidar images about the surrounding environment of vehicles. In addition, the lidar sensor can detect objects, other vehicles and people that may cause collision accidents, so that self-driving cars can drive on the road at different speeds. Moreover, the lidar sensor can also help self-driving cars run in various road conditions such as rain, sleet and snow, thus improving the performance of self-driving cars. Velodyne's Alpha? Prime lidar sensor is the next generation lidar sensor, which adopts Velodyne's patented 36-degree surround view sensing technology to support autonomous driving. After more than ten years of research and development and study, Alpha? Prime can support autonomous driving operations in various road environments such as cities and highways.
Editor's comment: Baidu has been one of Velodyne's strategic investors since 216. In addition, Ford is also one of Velodyne's investors, and both companies have invested 75 million US dollars (about 55 million yuan) in Velodyne. Now, Velodyne has several production bases in the United States, Japan and Thailand, which can mass-produce high-quality sensors to meet customer needs. (Source: businesswire；; Compile/car home? Li Na)