From advanced driver assistance to autonomous driving: perspectives for photonics sensors

Jacques Cochard; Clémentine Bouyé

doi:10.1117/12.2212657

17 March 2016 From advanced driver assistance to autonomous driving: perspectives for photonics sensors

Jacques Cochard, Clémentine Bouyé

Proceedings Volume 9754, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering III; 975409 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212657
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Optics components entered in the automotive vehicle one century ago with headlamps and since then move towards even more sophisticated designs in lighting functions. Photonics sensors are just entering now in this market through driver assistance, in complement of incumbent ultrasonic and radar technologies. Gain of market shares is expected for this components with autonomous driving, that was few years ago a nice dream and whose early results exceed surprisingly expectations of roadmaps and historic OEM have quickly joined the course launched by Google Company 5 years ago. Technological components, among them CMOS camera followed by Laser Scanners, cost-effective flash LIDAR are already experimenting their first miles in real condition and new consumers in South Asia plebiscite this new way to drive cars .The issue is still for photonics companies to move from well suited technological solution to mass-production components with corresponding cost reduction. MEMS components that follow the same curve 15 years ago (with market entries in airbags, tire pressure monitoring systems…) experimented the hard pressure on price for wide market adoption. Besides price, which is a CFO issue, photonic technologies will keep in place if they can both reassure OEM CEO and let CTO and designers dream. Reassurance will be through higher level of standardization and reliability of these components whereas dream will be linked to innovative sensing application, e.g spectroscopy.

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Jacques Cochard and Clémentine Bouyé "From advanced driver assistance to autonomous driving: perspectives for photonics sensors", Proc. SPIE 9754, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering III, 975409 (17 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212657

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