Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4350: INSPEX: Optimize Range Sensors for Environment Perception as a Portable System

Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4350: INSPEX: Optimize Range Sensors for Environment Perception as a Portable System Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19194350 Authors: Julie Foucault Suzanne Lesecq Gabriela Dudnik Marc Correvon Rosemary O’Keeffe Vincenza Di Palma Marco Passoni Fabio Quaglia Laurent Ouvry Steven Buckley Jean Herveg Andrea di Matteo Tiana Rakotovao Olivier Debicki Nicolas Mareau John Barrett Susan Rea Alan McGibney François Birot Hugues de Chaumont Richard Banach Joseph Razavi Cian Ó’Murchú Environment perception is crucial for the safe navigation of vehicles and robots to detect obstacles in their surroundings. It is also of paramount interest for navigation of human beings in reduced visibility conditions. Obstacle avoidance systems typically combine multiple sensing technologies (i.e., LiDAR, radar, ultrasound and visual) to detect various types of obstacles under different lighting and weather conditions, with the drawbacks of a given technology being offset by others. These systems require powerful computational capability to fuse the mass of data, which limits their use to high-end vehicles and robots. INSPEX delivers a low-power, small-size and lightweight environment perception system that is compatible with portable and/or wearable applications. This requires miniaturizing and optimizing existing range sensors of different technologies to meet the user’s requirements in terms of obstacle detection c...
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