For me, LiDAR is a very interesting system because it has many very interesting components and is all semiconductor-related, “said a product strategist at a Siemens subsidiary.” To make solid-state LiDAR, the field of silicon photonics is ongoing Some very interesting research work. There are some very interesting laser pointer jobs in the traditional research fields of how to obtain laser power and how to control laser pulses. The design of power transistors is also very interesting.
From the perspective of data processing, how to deal with the large amount of data generated by the 3D point cloud image of the LiDAR sensor? How do I understand this data? Ultimately, the purpose of data processing is to provide information that determines whether my car can continue to drive forward, which is also our ultimate goal of using these sensors, because its main terminal vision product is driverless cars.
The professor responsible for the research at the TUT Photonics Laboratory said: “The difficulty in understanding these lasers is so large because the pulses they produce typically last picoseconds or less; there are hundreds of such short pulses before the laser stabilizes. The complex cumulative dynamics of the pulses is beyond the capabilities of laser pointers in current optical measurement technology. “