Autonomous Vehicles
To fulfill the true promise of autonomous ground vehicles, AVs need to drive better and more safely than humans. And to do that, machine perception will have to improve on human perception. That will happen in part by using more sensors and information, such as LIDAR, radar, cameras, V2V communication, and high-resolution 3D maps. That will also happen by using the sensors more intelligently.
Humans don’t drive using static sensors. Our brains, informed by multiple sensors (eyes & ears), tell us where to look and when based on data being collected and processed in real time. Machine perception must behave similarly if it is to improve upon human perception. Echodyne is hard at work on a high-performance AV radar that will fundamentally change the way AV developers can interrogate the world to deliver the safest machine perception systems possible.
In the News
Most self-driving companies say this tech is crucial. Elon Musk disagrees
June 18, 2019
"The more sensors you use, the better chance you have of getting it right," said Eben Frankenberg, CEO of Echodyne, a Kirkland, Washington-based company developing radar.
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All the things that still baffle self-driving cars, starting with seagulls
October 1, 2018
This article captures the dynamics of static sensor flows in the context of dynamic neural net needs. AV designers need to dynamically task sensors to interrogate aspects of uncertain drive scenes. Sensor companies need to respond.
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Echodyne CTO to Speak on Revolutionary Machine Perception Radar for the Autonomous Age
April 30, 2018
Dr. Tom Driscoll to Speak on the Game-Changing Technology of MESA™ Radars. Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative high-performance radars for autonomous machines, announces today that its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Tom Driscoll, will speak on the company’s patented Metamaterial Electronically Scanning Array (MESA) radar technology at AUVSI’s XPonential
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Washington will be a world leader for self-driving cars and electric ferries, governor predicts
March 30, 2018
The future of transportation will be in Seattle. That’s a proclamation Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made at an event Wednesday evening celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Alliance of Angels investment group.
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