Engineers at Ford have been working on how to keep sensors on automated vehicles clear of debris like bugs
Developing a vehicle that can drive itself takes a lot more than just some complex artificial intelligence, state of the art graphics chips and expensive sensors. At least it does if you want the vehicle to drive itself around safely and reliably in all sorts of conditions. Just as we mere humans need to be able to see through the windows in order to navigate our environment, cameras, radar and lidar need an unobstructed view of the world.
Krishnan and his team incorporated something like this in to the structure that holds the sensors on the roof of the automated vehicles being tested by Ford and Argo AI. Air is channeled from the front of the so-called “tiara” and across in front of each camera. This curtain of high speed air prevents most of the bugs from impacting the sensor. Still, those air curtains aren’t impermeable. When debris does hit the sensor, software in the AV system can detect if it has become obscured.
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