Competitive Advantages
- Real-time dynamic beam shaping
- Improves autonomous driving
- Increases backscattered LiDAR signal
- Increases reliable detection range
Summary
Researchers at USF have developed a dynamic real-time multi LiDAR beam shaping and detection method by adopting dynamic focusing. This invention allows microcontrollers the ability to create multiple LiDAR beams simultaneously and tailor the combined transmitted beam in real time, so that the fraction of laser light intercepted and backscattered by the target is increased. The beam is shaped using various of mirror and lens arragements. Multiple laser beams with different spatial sizes are transmitted which in sequence controls the size and shape of the LiDAR beam. LiDAR detection finds application in autonomous vehicles.
Invention Focusing the Light Source and Receiver on a Spatially Tenuous Object
Desired Partnerships
- License
- Sponsored Research
- Co-Development