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77 AI means the two shuttles will not be limited to driving in known areas. That will reduce project costs and time to market for transportation authorities and urban planners. The AI is powered by the Nvidia Drive platform, featuring the Orin SoC, which runs at 254 TOPS to plan and execute safe driving paths for Imagry and its customers’ vehicles. The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) had its second annual head-to-head race event at CES, with team PoliMove (from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and the University of Alabama) emerging as the winner and setting a new autonomous speed world record for a racetrack of 180 mph. TUM Autonomous Motorsport from Technische Universitat Munchen in Germany took second place in the heated battle, with a total of nine teams from 17 universities competing in the event. Each teamworked to program an AV-21 self-driving racecar (as featured in UST 46, October/November 2022) to break autonomous speed records and win the head-to-head passing matches at the competitions. Each team’s cars took turns to play the leader/defender and passer/attacker. The AV-21 is a 725 kg car based on the IL-15 Indy Lights chassis from Dallara. It runs on a 2 litre four-cylinder four- stroke Honda Performance engine that was supplied by 4 Piston Racing and is managed using an ECU fromMotec. Lidars from Luminar and radars from Continental power the perception system, while VectorNav’s VN-310 dual- antenna GNSS-INS provides satellite and inertial navigation data and Tallysman antennas enable the reception of high- fidelity real-time GNSS updates. Hesai unveiled the FT120, its new fully solid-state Lidar, which it developed primarily for near-range blind spot coverage in order to help vehicles identify small objects during turning, passing and parking operations to improve overall driving safety. The system features a 100 x 75o FoV and a maximum detection range of 100 m. When configured for single-return mode it also produces 192,000 points of data per second (or 384,000 points/s in dual-return mode), with an overall resolution of 160 x 120. Hesai noted that the FT120 can be paired with the AT128, the company’s long-range hybrid solid-state Lidar, which it showcased at CES last year (as discussed in UST 43, April/May 2022), in order to form a complete automotive- grade Lidar perception system. The company also commented that it has received significant pre-orders of the FT120, with one million units to go to “top automotive OEMs” and deliveries to begin in the second half of this year. The FT120 consumes up to 12 W during operation, measures 68 x 75 x 90 mm and is enclosed in a housing rated to IP6K9K and IPX7 protection. 3D vision technology company Orbbec launched a number of new camera products it says are ideal for use in robotics. The first is the Femto, a 3D time-of-flight (ToF) camera built on Microsoft’s ToF technology – as used in the Hololens and the Azure Kinect developer kit – for detailed scene CES 2023 | Show report Uncrewed Systems Technology | February/March 2023 Indy Autonomous Challenge – one of the AV-21 autonomous racecars The Hesai Lidar booth at CES 2023