In autonomous and self-driving news are Perrone Robotics, AEye, LITEON, Geely and Foretellix.
Perrone Robotics TONY ADAS Kit
Perrone Robotics, a pioneer and leader in autonomous vehicle technology, announced the launch of its latest innovation, the TONY ADAS Kit. This advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) is designed to bring cutting-edge safety and driver assistance features to a wide range of vehicles, both new and existing.
The TONY ADAS Kit provides a comprehensive suite of automation and driver assistance functions. Leveraging the patented technologies from Perrone’s renowned TONY AV Kit, higher level autonomous operation, the TONY ADAS Kit is configurable and vehicle-agnostic, making it an ideal solution for various vehicle types, including transit vans, buses, cargo vans, and more.
“We are excited to introduce the TONY ADAS Kit to the market,” said Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics. “This product brings our proven autonomous technology into the ADAS space, offering a scalable, cost-effective solution for enhancing vehicle safety and compliance with emerging regulations.”
Key Features of the TONY ADAS Kit Include:
- Forward Collision Avoidance: Detects and prevents potential collisions with advanced sensor technology.
- Pedestrian Detection/Avoidance: Ensures pedestrian safety with effective detection and automated response.
- Lane Departure Warning/Correction: Alerts the driver and takes corrective action to stay within lane markings.
- Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB): Automatically applies brakes in emergency situations to avoid or mitigate collisions.
- Blind Spot Detection: Provides alerts for vehicles in blind spots, enhancing situational awareness.
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC): Maintains a safe distance from vehicles ahead by adjusting speed automatically.
Additionally, Perrone Robotics offers the TONY ADAS Kit Lite, a minimum viable product designed for low-cost, entry-level driver assistance in limited operational scenarios. Both versions of the kit benefit from Perrone’s patented vehicle-agnostic technology, ensuring rapid deployment and easy integration in both aftermarket and factory settings.
Meeting Emerging Regulations and Enhancing Safety
The TONY ADAS Kit is designed to meet new and emerging government regulations that require features like AEB and other ADAS functions. This makes it an ideal solution for fleet operators and manufacturers looking to upgrade their vehicles to comply with safety standards.
“Safety and compliance are paramount, and our TONY ADAS Kit provides a seamless path to integrating essential ADAS features into existing and new vehicles,” added Perrone. “With our technology, the transition to higher levels of automation is smooth and future-proof.”
AEye LOI with LITEON
AEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIDR), a global leader in adaptive, high-performance lidar solutions, announced that the non-binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) announced in March is with LITEON Technology Corporation and is intended to provide AEye with a customer channel and industrialization partnership. Both companies will work together to supply AEye’s 4Sight™-based lidar products to automotive original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) who are focused on safety through automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (“ADAS”). This is a logical collaboration as AEye continues to focus on its unique capital light business model, which leverages automotive Tier 1 partnerships to deliver AEye’s lidar solutions to OEMs through world-class pipelines.
Matt Fisch, AEye CEO, said, “We believe that LITEON is an ideal partner for us. Their innovative spirit, vast experience in providing solutions to the automotive ADAS market, combined with their cutting-edge industrialization capability will enable us to provide the industry’s leading long-range lidar solutions at a very competitive cost to our customers. We are already collaborating on the OEM RFI/RFQ pipeline and I’m enthusiastic about our combined ability to capture a significant portion of the market.”
LITEON is a leading, global provider of electronic solutions for automotive OEMs around the world. With over four decades of expertise in the automotive electronics industry, LITEON harnesses its core competencies in optoelectronics and power management to pioneer the future of automotive electronics. Leveraging their various manufacturing facilities, LITEON supplies services from design to manufacturing to most of the top Tier 1s and OEMs in Europe and North America.
The companies are excited about this new chapter and look forward to partnering to bring AEye’s 4Sight solution to the automotive market. This partnership is poised to pioneer the industry, leveraging their unique expertise to propel the future of autonomous driving.
Geely & Foretellix Partner
Geely, a major Chinese automotive manufacturer, and Foretellix, a leading provider of safety-driven V&V solutions for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), announced today a strategic partnership to enable safe large-scale deployment of AVs while reducing Geely’s R&D costs and increasing development efficiency.
Foretellix and Geely will collaborate to integrate Foretellix’s Foretify™ platform with Geely’s development and V&V flows and advanced simulator. The Foretify Platform will enable efficient synthetic data generation for AI training, automated scenario-based virtual testing, large-scale failure triage, performance and KPIs assessment, and ODD coverage measurement. The platform will be used to automatically analyze driving logs from Geely’s test vehicles and replay numerous variations in virtual simulation to maximize the utilization of physical drives.
“The Foretellix solution will expedite and enhance Geely’s development and validation process,” said Mr. ChuanHai Li, Vice President of Geely Research and Development. “It will enable us to ensure proper ODD coverage, quickly identify unknown corner cases, and resolve them more efficiently. Our partnership with Forerellix will be crucial in Geely’s quest to overcome safety challenges and commercialize AVs faster.”
“We are excited to partner with Geely,” said Ziv Binyamini, Foretellix CEO and co-founder. “We look forward to working with Geely and helping them accelerate their strategy for safe, efficient, and cost-effective autonomy.”
LeddarTech & Immervison Partner for Perception Model Training
LeddarTech Holdings Inc. (“LeddarTech”) (Nasdaq: LDTC) and Immervision Inc. announced a collaboration that aims to streamline the perception model training process with a view to making it faster, more cost-effective and less data-intensive. LeddarTech is an automotive software company that provides patented disruptive AI-based low-level sensor fusion and perception software technology, LeddarVision™, for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) and parking applications. Immervision is a leading developer of advanced vision systems combining optics, image processing and sensor fusion technology.
This joint effort combines LeddarTech’s expertise in AI-based low-level sensor fusion and perception software technology and Immervision’s leadership in advanced vision systems, creating a powerful synergy intended to improve ADAS and AD perception training.
The goal of perception technology in ADAS is to provide accurate and timely information to the vehicle’s control system, enabling it to make informed decisions and assist the driver in various driving tasks, such as collision avoidance, lane keeping and adaptive cruise control. However, the development and validation process requires costly data collection and labeling.
LeddarTech and Immervision’s collaboration aims to improve and significantly optimize this process by allowing large-scale data re-usability. The breakthrough achieved by their research teams allows the re-use of data across various ADAS and AD platforms, with zero simulation-to-reality gap. This means that existing data assets can now be leveraged for new platforms, significantly shrinking the development time and cost for the perception models, thus enabling a faster and more cost-effective development cycle for the complete system. This optimization is expected to result in a more cost-effective and safer future for ADAS and AD.
The companies intend to demonstrate this technology in Q3 of 2024.
“At Immervision, our partnership with LeddarTech is a leap forward in refining the training of perception software. We are pioneering a method to train these systems faster and cost-effectively, minimizing the need for extensive data gathering. This advancement is a game-changer in reducing the risk associated with developing advanced vision systems”, stated Michel Van Maercke, CEO of Immervision. “Through our joint efforts with LeddarTech, we intend to streamline the evolution of ADAS and AD technologies, accelerating our journey towards a safer, more efficient autonomous future.”
Pierre Olivier, LeddarTech’s Chief Technology Officer, stated: “I am enthusiastic about this collaboration, which has the potential to significantly accelerate the development and deployment of ADAS and AD solutions. LeddarTech and Immervision have collaborated before, and our teams share a common vision of the contribution that tools and data can make in realizing the dream of fully autonomous vehicles.”