Putting a New Spin on Lidar Imaging

Who is Velodyne? Velodyne Acoustics Velodyne Lidar High Performance Home Theater Subwoofers Velodyne Lidar High Performance Lidar Sensors

The “Itch” that started it all! Velodyne’s founder and CEO, Dave Hall had visions of getting on TV with his creations. At the height of the popularity of “Fighting Robot” competitions, it was a perfect opportunity to catch the robotics bug. The show “Robot Wars” featured David and his Brother Bruce, demolishing the competition and finish 1st runner up in the final event. “Drillzilla” had proven to the world that it had what it takes to be a CHAMPION!!

Robot Wars “Extreme Warriors” Video, Courtesy of TNN Networks Velodyne’s “Drillzilla” robot shows the clown what’s HOT!

Autonomous Truck – Team DAD “Team DAD delivered true innovation.” - Popular Science 2005 Introduction of the first ever 64 laser environmental scanner

Team DAD Drive By A spinning, 64 Laser scanner proves it’s value HDL Prototype A spinning, 64 Laser scanner proves it’s value

HDL64E High Definition Lidar Developed For The 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge

HDL-64E Technical Details 64 lasers 1.33M pixels / sec. 360° Horizontal FOV 28.6° Vertical FOV Range: 120M 5 – 15 Hz frame rate Distance, intensity data Class 1 eye safe Side view

Lidar Street Imaging Rings indicate Laser paths Colors indicate elevation change

Urban Challenge - CMU Route Planning Upper left image of raw LIDAR data Main image of target isolation and path tracking 10

MIT, Stanford, and CMU at the Urban Challenge finals Urban Challenge – November 2007 MIT, Stanford, and CMU at the Urban Challenge finals

Urban Challenge Results Top 2 finishers in 2007 Urban Challenge – Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University 5 of 6 finishers, 7 of 11 finalists, 12 of 35 semifinalists

Mobile Mapping 3D Capture at Posted Speeds Used for: Highway infrastructure inventory Bridge height analysis Foliage intrusion Mining Construction Disaster scene reconstruction

3-D Road Mapping Images, courtesy of Mandli Communications

Making Radiohead’s “House of Cards” Rick from Velodyne Setting up the cul-de-sac shot. Production group with Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood of Radiohead. 15

Radiohead’s Grammy Nominated “House Of Cards” Clips from “House Of Cards”

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