The new VLS-128 LiDAR sensor is designed for the rapidly expanding autonomous vehicle market. Featuring an industry-leading 128 laser channels, the VLS-128 features high resolution, long range, and the widest surround field-of-view of any LiDAR system available today.
Velodyne’s VLS-128 succeeds the HDL-64. Velodyne’s new flagship model has a whopping 10 times higher
resolving power than the HDL-64, allowing it to see objects more clearly, while its highly accurate object identification and detection system can provide superior collision avoidance in a moving car.
Velodyne has performed customer demonstrations of the VLS-128 and plans to produce it in scale at the company’s new Megafactory in San Jose. The VLS-128 technology provides three major advances for autonomous driving: A reduction in vision system compute complexity, highway driving, and robotic assembly of the sensor itself.
The VLS-128’s high-resolution data can also be used directly for object detection without additional sensor fusion, which improves the safety and redundancy of the autonomous vehicle’s compute function and reduces overall compute complexity.
With its long range and high-resolution data, the VLS-128 allows autonomous vehicles to function equally as well in highway scenarios and low-speed urban environments. It is designed to solve for all corner cases needed for full autonomy in highway scenarios, allowing for expanded functionality and increased testing in new environments.
Based on mass-produced semiconductor technologies, the VLS-128 is designed for automated assembly in Velodyne’s Megafactory using a proprietary laser alignment and manufacturing system to meet the growing global demand for LiDAR-based vision systems.
Velodyne LiDAR, 5521 Hellyer Avenue, San Jose, CA 95138, 408.465.2800, http://velodynelidar.com/
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