Enabling Affordable Autonomy Using Hybrid Dense Vision
Lead Participant:
OXBOTICA LIMITED
Abstract
Autonomous vehicles have vast economic potential for UK plc. Like any new technologies, the adoption curve
can be dramatically accelerated by improving the balance between cost and benefit. However this delicate
balance 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 accelerate
this nascent technology to deployment. The Feasibility Study will combine new, ground-breaking Intellectual
Property in 3D dense vision into a road-going prototype and assess the performance of this radical low-cost
alternative to laser localisation over many thousands of miles of testing. The outcome will be an analysis of the
performance of a new Hybrid Dense Vision approach - leading to a reference design for an ultra-low cost sensor
system for autonomous vehicles that could reduce existing sensors costs for autonomous systems by over an
order of magnitude.
can be dramatically accelerated by improving the balance between cost and benefit. However this delicate
balance 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 accelerate
this nascent technology to deployment. The Feasibility Study will combine new, ground-breaking Intellectual
Property in 3D dense vision into a road-going prototype and assess the performance of this radical low-cost
alternative to laser localisation over many thousands of miles of testing. The outcome will be an analysis of the
performance of a new Hybrid Dense Vision approach - leading to a reference design for an ultra-low cost sensor
system for autonomous vehicles that could reduce existing sensors costs for autonomous systems by over an
order of magnitude.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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OXBOTICA LIMITED | £248,092 | £ 173,664 |
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Participant |
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INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |
Graeme Smith (Project Manager) |