South Korean company launches 3D perception software platform compatible with all 3D lidar sensors

According to foreign media reports, South Korean company Seoul Robotics has launched a 3D perception software platform - SENSR™, which is compatible with all mainstream 3D lidar sensors. With the launch of SENSR™, Seoul Robotics has become the first company to provide commercial 3D perception software solutions that are compatible with various brands of lidar, thus providing automotive-grade perception artificial intelligence technology for various industries using lidar. Seoul Robotics is also a supplier of perception software for autonomous driving systems.

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While cameras provide rich color information, lidar provides depth and shape information about objects, greatly improving the reliability of autonomous vehicle navigation systems.

Initially, many experts expected that high prices would be the biggest drawback of LiDAR. However, as the price of LiDAR has steadily dropped with the development of the industry, how to interpret and process the 3D data generated by the sensor remains a huge challenge. Although some companies have the ability to spend millions of dollars to build functional software to interpret and process such data, this talent-intensive and capital-intensive work needs to be repeated with each new LiDAR sensor and a new application. SENSR is the first industrial-grade software solution that provides scalable 3D perception capabilities for companies in various industries and applications, and has a high degree of flexibility to select LiDAR sensors and easily integrate into multiple different sensors.

Whether it is ADAS, autonomous driving, delivery robots or monitoring systems, SENSR's advanced modules and toolkits can be used to build countless products and sensing solutions based on lidar. The software is compatible with almost all commercialized 3D lidar sensors, and even with newly launched solid-state lidar and MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) lidar.

The SENSR platform has a robust architecture that can quickly and reliably understand 3D LiDAR data in a variety of environments. Seoul Robotics' patented proprietary AI algorithms can perform basic processing of objects such as detection, classification, tracking and prediction. In addition, the SENSR platform can perfectly fuse data from different types of LiDARs to help computers understand the environment without relying on previously built high-precision maps. Therefore, the SENSR platform can support a variety of applications, such as security systems that detect intruders, predicting the distance between cars and pedestrians on the sidewalk in autonomous driving applications, etc.