Enabling Affordable Autonomy Using Hybrid Dense Vision

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Autonomous vehicles have vast economic potential for UK plc. Like any new technologies, the adoption curvecan be dramatically accelerated by improving the balance between cost and benefit. However this delicatebalance is often overlooked in many studies and sensor costs currently limit any reasonable business case.This proposal is about inducing a step change in the affordabililty of autonomous vehicles that will acceleratethis nascent technology to deployment. The Feasibility Study will combine new, ground-breaking IntellectualProperty in 3D dense vision into a road-going prototype and assess the performance of this radical low-costalternative to laser localisation over many thousands of miles of testing. The outcome will be an analysis of theperformance of a new Hybrid Dense Vision approach - leading to a reference design for an ultra-low cost sensorsystem for autonomous vehicles that could reduce existing sensors costs for autonomous systems by over anorder of magnitude.