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German Continental sets up supercomputer to boost autonomous driving
BERLIN, July 28 (Xinhua) — German automotive supplier Continental set up a supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of innovative mobility technologies, the company announced on Tuesday.
“AI enhances advanced driver assistance systems, makes mobility smarter and safer and accelerates the development of systems for autonomous driving,” the firm noted.
The supercomputer, which was among the 500 most powerful computers in the world, was operating from a data center in Frankfurt am Main in Germany since the beginning of the year and used technology from the U.S. company NVIDIA, according to Continental.
“The supercomputer is an investment in our future,” said Christian Schumacher, head of program management systems in Continental's advanced driver assistance systems business unit.
Continental's fleet of test cars was currently traveling around 15,000 kilometers per day, generating around 100 terabytes of data, equivalent to 50,000 hours of mov..
AEye Team Profile: Viktoria Parker
Viktoria Parker is Supply Chain Manager at AEye. She is APICS-certified with over 15 years experience in supply chain management, inventory control, project management, strategic supplier management, contract negotiation, supplier selection, forecasting, and planning. Prior to AEye, she worked at medical device company Fresenius as Senior Inventory Analyst. She also has semiconductor experience from working for Nikon as a Key Account Spare Parts Planner (Nikon Europe), and as a Senior Materials Planner (US). Originally from Belarus, Viktoria is fluent in four languages and came to the Bay Area in 2006. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Minsk State Linguistics University and a Business Administration Certificate from UCSC.We sat down with Viktoria to learn about her role as Supply Chain Manager, the differences amongst the medical, semiconductor, and automotive industries, and why she loves dancing the tango!
Q: What are your responsibilities as Supply Chain Manager at AEye?As Supply Chain Manager, I’m responsible for purchasing, warehousing, inventory control, shipping/receiving, and production planning. It is exciting to be involved and fully engaged in so many areas of the company and to have the unique opportunity to set up processes and establish rules to help make it succeed. AEye has a very inspiring environment with brilliant minds and experts in their fields. It is just a fun crowd to be around!
Q: You’re fluent in four languages: English, German, French, and Russian. How have your language skills been a value to you and your role?English has been my passion since I was 14 years old. I love linguistics–a fascinating science with its own laws, rules, and exceptions. My first job was working for an American company while still living in Belarus. Most of my business communication was conducted in English. Knowing the language at that time after the Soviet Union collapsed was the leading factor in finding a decent job. Knowing English opened up so many doors! Then I moved to Germany–I mastered German pretty quickly and was hired by the leading Japanese semiconductor company, which brought me to America 7 years later. Sadly, I almost forgot my French along the way. However, a French colleague at AEye is inspiring me to refresh it. I started listening to a French language podcast on my lunch walks. Russian is my mother tongue and it will never be forgotten. I was always lucky to have Russian-speaking colleagues at any company I worked, both in Germany and the US. Same goes for AEye: I have the opportunity to share a Russian joke with my colleague and to talk about the good old days.
Q: You’ve worked in the medical and semiconductor industries – how do they differ from automotive?The medical industry is highly regulated by the FDA. There are lots of procedures to follow and approvals to collect. The semiconductor industry gives you more flexibility to be creative at the workplace. The automotive industry is regulated even more than medical. The difference is that it is self-regulated. There is no governing body that would shut a company down for violating the rules. However, the rules are even more stringent, established by the industry, which a company needs to follow to be in business. Self-regulation is quite a remarkable factor, showing that automotive companies take safety very seriously and that’s a good thing for us all in the end.
Q: You’ve been taking tango classes! What sparked your interest in tango and what about it do you love?I’ve been fascinated by tango for a very long time, watching pretty much every episode of Dancing with the Stars (DWTS). When my husband expressed interest in learning it with me, I was thrilled to try. We’ve been taking lessons on and off for over 5 years now. I can tell you that learning tango is a lifetime journey. Tango is a passionate communication without words, an intimate connection between two strangers, where no language skills are necessary.
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AEye Reveals Advanced MEMS That Delivers Solid-State Performance and Reliability Needed to Advance Adoption of Low-Cost LiDAR
Independent tests validate that the new 4Sight™ long range intelligent MEMS-based sensor exceeds automotive and industrial standards for shock and vibe
Dublin, CA – June 9, 2020 – AEye, Inc, an artificial perception pioneer today announced that their 4Sight™ M sensor based on patented intelligent perception system design has established a new standard for sensor reliability. In testing completed at NTS, one of the most respected testing, inspection, and certification companies in the US, the 4Sight M scan block surpassed automotive qualification for both shock and vibe. AEye also announced the availability of 4Sight – a new family of advanced 1550nm LiDAR vision systems.
“The LiDAR industry has struggled with attaining solid-state performance, especially when trying achieve sufficiently high resolution at long range,” said Luis Dussan, Co-Founder and CEO of AEye. “With the very public failures of several Optical Phased Arrays and Flash LiDAR concepts, MEMS-based systems were seen as a potential solution, but the inability of FMCW or other TOF systems to effectively reduce the size of or harden their MEMS continues to be a stumbling block. Our non-arrayed micro-MEMS is at the core of our unique system design and helps us solve this challenge-providing the automotive industry the combination of reliability, performance and price they have been seeking.”
4Sight is the fifth-generation sensor from AEye and is based on AEye’s powerful iDAR™ platform. AEye’s unique patented system design is elegant in its simplicity with one laser, one MEMS, one receiver, and one SOC. Driven by extensible software, 4Sight is designed from the ground up to identify and deliver salient information while exceeding all industry quality and reliability standards, and can be manufactured at scale at low cost. To prove its reliability, AEye recently engaged NTS, to conduct extensive shock and vibration testing, on the 4Sight sensor. The results of the test showed a 4Sight Sensor can sustain a mechanical shock of over 50G, random vibration of over 12Grms (5-2000Hz), and sustained vibration of over 3G.
“Having funded hundreds of radar and LiDAR projects over the years,” said Allan Steinhardt, AEye’s Chief Scientist and former Chief Scientist at DARPA. “I appreciate the power of simple and elegant design and how that impacts system reliability. In real terms, our 4sight remains fully operational significantly past the acceleration point where air bags deploy, and passengers black out.”
AEye is changing the calculus for adding long range, high-performance LiDAR to a vehicle. Now automotive OEMs and Tier 1s along with trucking, construction, transit, rail, ITS, aerospace, and defense markets can implement LiDAR with the confidence that it can withstand forces similar to those generated by the recent historic launch of a Falcon rocket.
Size Matters – Not all MEMS are created equalThe size of the mirror in a MEMS largely determines its reliability. Larger mirrors also have larger inertia, generating 10x to 600x more torque from shock and vibration events. In addition, larger mirrors do not allow for fast, quasi-static movement for agile scanning, which is key to intelligent and reliable artificial perception.
The unique patented system design of AEye’s MEMS allows a mirror that is less than 1mm in size. Other LiDAR systems use 3mm to 25mm mirrors – which equates to 10X – 600X larger surface area. In addition, lacking intelligence-driven agility, these systems are forced to rely on these larger mirrors increasing both complexity and cost. Combined with an 1550nm amplifiable laser and sophisticated receiver, the small mirrors in AEye’s custom-designed MEMS are produced in volume using standard processes and deliver the unique high-performance of iDAR with ground breaking reliability.
“The philosophy of AEye unique iDAR approach is to use resources where they have the greatest leverage for the application and make it the highest resolution, longest range, and most reliable LIDAR engine on the market,” said Jan Grahmann, Head of Micoroptical Devices and Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems. “Unlike competitors that have to work with large MEMS mirrors for long distances, we have worked with AEye to prove that a solid-state MEMS-scanning based LIDAR engine with MEMS mirrors at their design space sweet spot provide exceptional performance and extreme shock and vibration resistance.”
“The cumulative fatigue data from these tests is used to determine the lifespan, quality and reliability of 4Sight,” said Indu Vijayan, 4Sight Product Manager. “Passing these tests demonstrate that 4Sight will endure the vibrations of a vehicle for its rated lifetime as well as shock of 50G impact events such as collisions or massive potholes. From an automotive perspective, it also shows that 4Sight sensors are on-track to pass shock and vibration standards such as GMW3172 and LV124.”
Built on unique patented technologiesAEye’s iDAR platform and 4Sight sensors are backed by over 27 granted patents, 10 more patents in process, and over 1,300 claims covering system and component design and implementation. This broad patent portfolio includes several groundbreaking innovations such as the only scanning lidar patent granted for a camera and lidar sharing the same optical axis (co-boresited), eliminating enormous parallax correction; MEMS agile control, feedback, and intraframe sampling, allowing for edge processing and low-latency feedback; and advanced perception, enabling real-time capabilities such accurate intraframe calculation of object velocity.
Given the current constraints in travel, AEye is also announcing another industry-first innovation in the launch of Raptor – a unique high-performance web-based remote demo platform. Raptor will enable participants to engage in a real-time interactive test drive with an AEye engineer. From the comfort of their own home or office, AEye’s customers and partners will have the ability to see what a truly software-defined sensor can do and witness the record breaking 4Sight M performance in real time and to customize the demo to meet their specific use cases. Please contact [email protected] to schedule a demo.
About AEyeAEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR™, a perception system that acts as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since its demonstration of its solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and backed by world-renowned investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Taiwania Capital, Hella Ventures, LG Electronics, Subaru-SBI, Aisin, Intel Capital, Airbus Ventures, and others.
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