Despite Tesla’s bold claims of its autos’ Full Self-Driving capabilities, right this moment’s autonomous navigation know-how usually tops out at Level 2. More superior self-driving techniques are in improvement however doubtless nonetheless years away from being protected and cost-effective sufficient for on a regular basis use. Seoul Robotics, nevertheless, has developed a mesh community that reportedly imparts Level 5 autonomy to car fleets, if just for the “last mile.”

The firm’s Level 5 Control Tower system sidesteps some technical challenges of self-driving know-how by embedding sensors within the surrounding infrastructure — site visitors lights, close by buildings, freeway overpasses, and so forth — fairly than on the autos themselves. Instead of every car looking for itself and responding autonomously to surrounding site visitors, the Level 5 Control Tower makes use of its meshed sensor community to gather knowledge on the general site visitors state of affairs and automate autos within the space accordingly, utilizing V2X communications and 4/5G radios.

“Ultimately, these techniques shall be deployed in further public and enterprise settings, powering points of our on a regular basis lives, similar to autonomously navigated parking and public transit,” HanBin Lee, CEO of Seoul Robotics, stated in a ready assertion Tuesday. Eventually the know-how might discover its approach to a lot of business functions from car distribution facilities to automobile rental heaps. 

BMW is at the moment trialling the system to handle fleet logistics at its manufacturing facility in Munich. That system makes use of Seoul Robotics’ SENSR software program and a community of a whole lot of LiDAR sensors embedded across the facility to autonomously transfer newly-constructed autos throughout the manufacturing facility ground. Because the system has vantage factors from just about each angle, fairly than the half dozen or so sensors on the car itself, Control Tower can simply information particular person autos round blind spots and thru cross site visitors — even whereas concurrently “driving” a whole lot of different automotive drones.