Analysis:
LiDAR is critical enabling technology for sensing and perception in systems as wide ranging as mobile robots, articulated robots and self-driving vehicles. Unfortunately, developing applications using raw 3D LiDAR data is difficult and time-consuming, especially given the many different, proprietary LiDAR solutions on the market and the proprietary LiDAR data formats and protocols they utilize. Even experienced engineering teams are challenged when LiDAR data processing must be done in real-time, which is the case in the majority of applications. The difficulty of integrating LiDAR sensing into applications limits robotics experimentation, increases costs, and extends time to market. Outsight’s Augmented LiDAR Box 3D LiDAR preprocessor simplifies the integration of LiDAR solutions and reduces the complexity of utilizing the raw 3D LiDAR data they produce, as well as the processed, and often fused, information from one or more LiDAR systems. - Dan Kara