Heavy Rain Affects LiDAR Sensor’s Effectiveness in Detecting Objects
Written by AZoSensorsFeb 26 2021
High level autonomous vehicles (AVs) are promised by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and technology companies to improve road safety as well as bringing economical and societal benefits to us all.
All high-level AVs rely heavily on sensors, and in the paper, Realistic LiDAR with Noise Model for Real-Tim Testing of Automated Vehicles in a Virtual Environment , published in the
IEEE Sensors Journal, researchers from the Intelligent Vehicles Group at WMG, University of Warwick have specifically simulated and evaluated the performance of LiDAR sensors in rain.
Using the WMG 3xD simulator, researchers tested an autonomous vehicle s LiDAR sensors in different intensities of rain, driving around a simulation of real roads in and around Coventry.