Blackmore Unveils First Doppler LiDAR on Road

Sept. 5, 2018
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, the pioneers behind the world’s first Doppler LiDAR for automotive applications, confirmed that their system exceeded expectations in real-world scanning and mapping across the Bay Area’s busy highways and on the congested streets of San Francisco.

September 5, 2018—Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc., the pioneers behind the world’s first Doppler LiDAR for automotive applications, confirmed that their system exceeded expectations in real-world scanning and mapping across the Bay Area’s busy highways and on the congested streets of San Francisco.

With backers including BMW i Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures, Blackmore’s team has successfully parlayed more than ten years of experience refining frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LiDAR with the Department of Defense to address the automotive industry’s rigorous requirements.

Blackmore’s sensor is the only LiDAR currently available that instantly delivers real-time velocity measurements of every detected point, helping make autonomous driving smarter and safer. Traditional pulsed LiDAR systems do not measure motion directly, meaning velocity information is only available after running computationally complex and error-prone analytics algorithms on multiple frames of data. With Blackmore’s Doppler-enhanced data, autonomous vehicles perceive the world around them with very high confidence and the low latencies required for safe navigation.

Blackmore's Doppler LiDAR also eliminates interference from sunlight and other sensors, and improves long-range performance compared with conventional lidar. 

Blackmore’s automotive Doppler LiDAR systems, which are priced competitively with existing pulsed alternatives, are currently with teams at OEMs and suppliers across the industry.

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