Perception and High Precision Positioning

Overview

ASTRI perception and high-precision positioning technology provides consolidated indoor/outdoor environment vehicle/human positioning with low latency. It is an infrastructure technology that lays the cornerstone for C-V2X, smart-city, smart-mobility, and Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) applications.

  • Perception and High Precision Positioning
Technical name of innovation
Perception and High Precision Positioning
Research completion
Ongoing
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing; Technology co-development
Problem addressed

Too costly to install high-precision positioning devices (e.g., RTK device) on all vehicles/humans to obtain its accurate position. Impossible/hard to obtain accurate position in indoor and urban area due to lack of or poor Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal. No solution to obtain all objects (vehicles/humans) in an area for road safety/smart transportation purposes. No consolidated indoor/outdoor positioning solution.

Innovation
  • Visual positioning, leveraging the widely deployed cameras in smart city/smart parking/smart surveillance to obtain high-precision position information of high-speed moving vehicles or humans at long distance (20cm in 150m, 0.5m at 400m)
  • Innovative camera calibration technology enables mass deployment and leverages already-mounted cameras for new applications
  • Multi-sensor Fusion Perception offers flexible combinations of a variety of sensors like camera/lidar/radar, to obtain even higher precision and even lower latency
  • GPU-accelerated AI algorithm to achieve real-time positioning, saving resources
  • Positioning technologies in complex environments such as rainy/ snowy/smoggy weather, and for protecting user’s privacy
Key impact
  • The technology can be used in many positioning-demanded scenarios such as C-V2X, smart-city, road-side perception for smart-intersection, etc.
  • AI is adopted for optimizing positioning accuracy
  • Consolidated indoor/outdoor positioning provides a better solution for self-localization problem for AGV, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and Autonomous Driving
Award
  • 2022 the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva – Gold Award
Application
  • C-V2X
  • Smart Surveillance
  • Smart City
  • Smart Transportation
  • AGV

Patent

  • US App. No. 17/467,664 and CN App No. 202180002817.0
  • US App. No. 17/467,683 and CN App No. 202180002846.7
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

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