Luminar is best known in the auto industry for its lidar sensors, Luminar is best known in the auto industry for its lidar sensors, allowing vehicles with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to paint a 3D picture of the world around them as part of SAE Level 2-4 systems.
With the rapid advances in lidar tech over the past few years, as well as significant reductions in sensor size, it’s difficult to picture an autonomous future without slim sensor pods on the leading edge of vehicle roofs.
But now the company has also released a full-stack software development kit dubbed Sentinel, designed to allow automakers to speed up work on ADAS systems.
From an article in Autoweek by Jay Ramey.
With the rapid advances in lidar tech over the past few years, as well as significant reductions in sensor size, it’s difficult to picture an autonomous future without slim sensor pods on the leading edge of vehicle roofs.
But now the company has also released a full-stack software development kit dubbed Sentinel, designed to allow automakers to speed up work on ADAS systems.
“People know Luminar for pioneering Lidar systems for global production vehicles, but since 2017 we have also been building next-generation AI-based software for improved safety and autonomy,” said Austin Russell, founder and CEO of Luminar.
The system was first shown back in 2021 as a prototype, previewing just a handful of its current functions, but is now ready to be integrated into just about any commercial or consumer vehicle. The suite includes functions such as 3D Mapping, Proactive Safety, Perception, Simulation, Dynamic Lidar, and Localization.
Several of these will make their way not only into SAE Level 3 cars poised to debut in the coming years, but into more basic vehicles that might not otherwise offer ADAS capabilities.
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