According to foreign media reports, ground penetrating radar is not a new technology, but the concept of using it in the field of autonomous vehicles is very new. Recently, a company called WaveSense believes that GPR can be used for autonomous driving in bad weather conditions. The car provides navigation assistance. The system proposed by WaveSense works as follows: Scan to 10 feet below the road surface, then use the data and combine the data from other sensors on the car to build an underground feature map that can be used to maintain The position of the car on the road.
Obviously, this is an oversimplification of a complex technical process, but the company says that the system can achieve 1 inch accuracy at high speeds regardless of road conditions.
WaveSense CEO Tarik Bolat said: 'With the development of automation systems, the world's transportation and transportation are undergoing tremendous changes. But before autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, navigation safety and reliability must be significantly improved. WaveSense technology It fundamentally improves the safety of self-driving cars under any circumstances, and also provides the confidence and reliability that our industry must demonstrate in order to win public trust.
In addition, WaveSense revealed that the system was developed by the MIT for the military, and it was used on the battlefield in Afghanistan as early as 2013.