With its sensor components, including the world's leading light vehicle front camera products, ZF has laid the foundation for the autonomous driving business. Its flagship S- CAM4.8 camera is the first mass-produced monocular camera that can provide a horizontal viewing angle of 100 degrees, and it is currently being adopted by a series of customers. S-Cam 4.8 camera has a wider field of vision, especially in sharp turns or intersections, and can identify more vehicles. Importantly, it can find vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists earlier.
ZF is launching its next-generation radar product portfolio, including medium-range radar and full-range radar. The key sensor provided has the characteristics of high efficiency and high cost performance, which improves the sensing range and resolution. ZF's next generation radar series includes an optional advanced three-dimensional antenna and a system equipped with a long-range radar head, which can input data into the central processor for 360-degree perception.
The sensor component of ZF also includes a lidar option, and its third sensor can sense the environment in more detail, providing redundancy for the camera and radar. Through cooperation with Ibeo, ZF will help introduce ibeoNEXT solid-state lidar from 2022, and future generations of lidar are also under development, which will take into account reasonable cost and excellent performance. ZF uses long-term accumulated professional knowledge, combines these technologies through sensor fusion, and realizes data link in an intelligent way, thus realizing advanced safety and automatic driving functions that meet the requirements of global safety regulations.
Fisher also said: "ZF is cooperating with global automobile manufacturers to bring safe and convenient advanced functions to drivers all over the world. ZF can provide L2+ systems, such as coASSIST and coDRIVE. CoASSIST is a very economical L2+ system at present, and the vehicles mounted on Dongfeng have been listed in China. We are working with customers to bring enhanced L2+ system coDRIVE to market. We will also provide our new customer Vinfast with a coPILOT system, which can be extended from L3 automatic driving to L4 automatic parking. Everything is confirming that' next generation travel' is changing from a vision to a reality. "