AUVSI and SAE International recently hosted the first Business of Automated Mobility Forum, bringing together industry leaders and experts from across the automated mobility industry to develop guiding strategies for success.   During an Enterprise Solutions Series presented by Jon Barad, VP of Business Development at Velodyne Lidar, Forum attendees learned about how lidar-based solutions are transforming infrastructure to make communities smarter and safer, today and in the future.  

As beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) UAS operations are primed to open a range of possibilities in the drone industry, fixed-wing drone solutions provider senseFly has established itself as an early leader in safely and successfully performing these operations.

This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Navy have signed a new agreement to jointly expand the development and operations of unmanned maritime systems in the nation’s coastal and world’s ocean waters. Through the agreement, NOAA will accelerate its science, service and stewardship mission by leveraging the Navy’s expertise, infrastructure, best practices and training. (NOAA)

Momenta, which is building the “brain” for autonomous driving, has partnered with Toyota to provide automated HD mapping and updates through vision-based technologies. To better serve Chinese customers, the companies will seek to use this joint development to promote the commercialization of Toyota’s Automated Mapping Platform (AMP) in the Chinese market. Momenta’s vision-based, camera-based HD mapping uses low-cost consumer-grade sensor sets, which is made up of camera, GPS, and IMU to automatically generate HD maps with 10-centimeter level relative accuracy by using cutting-edge technologies such as deep-learning based perception and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).