Table of Contents
Sensors
LIDAR
Radar
Visual Camera
Thermal/Non-Visual Camera
Ultrasonic
IMU
Odometry
Audio
Interior / Occupant
Other 3D
Other
Sensors
LIDAR
Velodyne
Industry-starter and leader for over a decade
Quanergy
First company building solid-state sensors
Waymo LIDAR
from
Waymo
(Uses on own cars, sells Laser Bear Honeycomb only to non-robotaxi customers)
AEye
– 1550nm, formerly US LADAR.
Aeva
– FMCW from ex-Apple founders
Blackmore
purchased May 2019 by
Aurora
Hesai
– Leading Chinese supplier
Benewake
Robosense
Valeo
(design by
Ibeo
) – low resolution, mostly used in
ADAS
LeddarTech
– Canadian supplier of components and tech
Luminar
– 1550nm LIDAR used by several teams
Ouster
– Spinning 360 degree units from co-founder of
Quanergy
Cepton
Innoviz
– Mems mirror device from Israel
Oryx
Strobe
purchased by GM/
Cruise
.
Princeton Lightwave
purchased by
Argo
Omron
Denso
Infineon
Otto
– Subject of famous lawsuit
Surestar
Leishen
Chinese maker of spinning and forward LIDARs up to 160 lasers
Sense Photonics
– Flash LIDAR with massive laser array, 180×90 degrees and $26M funding.
Radar
Bosch
Lunewave
Wavesense
Metawave
Arbe
– Israeli company with phased array
Visual Camera
MobilEye
, now a unit of
Intel
produces an integrated camera/processing unit for ADAS and self-driving
Clarity
, a multi-view 3-camera depth camera processing system.
Thermal/Non-Visual Camera
TriEye
- Israeli short wave infrared camera claims good fog penetration.
Adasky
- Thermal (microbolometer 10 micron) cameras for ADAS and robocars
Flir
– Major manufacturer of microbolometer thermal cameras
Ultrasonic
IMU
Odometry
Audio
Interior / Occupant
Other 3D
Espros
– very short range, low cost phase based time-of-flight
Tetravue
– High resolution depth map from intensity of returns
PMDTech
– Fabless chip company with phase-based time-of-flight
Other