Nanocoatings Testing for Improved Perception in Adverse Weather Autonomous Driving

纳米涂层测试可改善恶劣天气自动驾驶的感知

• 批准号: 538515-2019
• 负责人: Waslander, Steven
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=680935
• 关键词: Nanocoatings; Testing; Improved; Perception; Adverse

Robust perception in harsh weather conditions is one of the biggest technical hurdles preventing the widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles, particularly in northern climates. The Autonomoose self-driving car program at the University of Waterloo has been working on autonomous perception capabilities for self-driving cars in adverse weather for the last three years, and is a leader in the areas of vision and lidar processing to remove the effects of weather. The industrial partner, Alchemy, is currently evaluating the use of low energy coatings to improve autonomous vehicle sensors (LiDAR and Camera) performance in heavy rain/snow conditions, as well as repelling debris such as bird droppings, salt rings, and insects. This project will apply the Alchemy coating to the Autonomoose test vehicle, and evaluate benchmark performance of vision and lidar processing algorithms with and without the coatings in adverse weather. The project will focus on both rain and snow conditions, weather permitting, and could lead to a significant reduction in the time to release of winter-ready self-driving cars in Canada, and to a central position for Alchemy in the international self-driving car sensor manufacturing market.

在恶劣天气条件下的强大感知是阻碍自动驾驶汽车广泛部署的最大技术障碍之一，特别是在北方气候条件下。滑铁卢大学的Autonomoose自动驾驶汽车项目在过去的三年里一直致力于研究自动驾驶汽车在恶劣天气下的自主感知能力，并且是视觉和激光雷达处理领域的领导者，以消除天气的影响。 Alchemy的工业合作伙伴Alchemy目前正在评估使用低能量涂层来提高自动驾驶汽车传感器（LiDAR和摄像头）在大雨/大雪条件下的性能，以及排斥鸟粪、盐环和昆虫等碎片。该项目将在Autonomoose测试车辆上应用Alchemy涂层，并评估在恶劣天气下使用和不使用涂层的视觉和激光雷达处理算法的基准性能。 该项目将重点关注雨雪条件，天气允许的情况下，并可能导致在加拿大发布冬季准备自动驾驶汽车的时间大幅减少，并使Alchemy在国际自动驾驶汽车传感器制造市场中处于中心地位。