Cepton Sets New Industry Benchmark with Next-Generation Flagship Automotive Lidar, Ultra
08 Janeiro 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
World’s slimmest lidar packs Cepton’s groundbreaking MagnoSteer™
technology and proprietary ASIC chipset, enabling an unprecedented
combination of 300 m range and 0.05° resolution at 12 W power
consumption
Cepton, Inc. (“Cepton” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CPTN), a
Silicon Valley innovator of high-performance lidar solutions,
announced today the unveiling of its new flagship automotive lidar,
Ultra.
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Ultra is the world’s slimmest adaptive,
long-range lidar, designed based on real OEM requirements for
next-generation consumer vehicle ADAS and automated driving
capabilities. © Cepton, Inc.
Ultra is the world’s slimmest adaptive, long-range lidar,
designed based on real OEM requirements for next-generation
consumer vehicle ADAS and automated driving capabilities. It boasts
Cepton’s latest innovation – MagnoSteer™ – to enable an unmatched
combination of performance, power efficiency, and compactness:
- Maximum detection range: 300 m at 10% reflectivity
- Angular resolution: 0.05° x 0.05° within regions of interest
(ROI)
- Field of view: 120° (H) x 25° (V) maximum, software
definable
- Typical Power consumption: 12 W
- Data rate: up to 3.8 million points per second
- Size: 150 (W) x 24 (H) x 90 (D) mm
“With the introduction of Ultra, we are proud to reveal
MagnoSteer, our next generation of lidar imaging technology,” said
Brunno Moretti, Senior Vice President of Product and Commercial
Operations at Cepton. “MagnoSteer is a revolutionary beam steering
mechanism with maximized field of view efficiency. This means that
it minimizes the time, space and energy wasted within the
architecture as it generates extremely dense point clouds,
resulting in impressive data rate from an extremely small package.
It is frictionless, automotive-grade and has an infinite mechanical
life. It consumes less than half the power of typical scanning
systems that deliver comparable performance, while taking up as
little as one-fourth of the space.
“Powered by MagnoSteer, Ultra breaks the performance bottleneck
of 905 nm lidars while taking advantage of a mature,
mass-market-ready laser technology. With a 300 m detection range at
10% reflectivity, it can detect and locate a dark object, such as a
black car, at a distance 50% further than what is typically
required for automotive collision prevention systems to properly
react. All of this is achieved without the need for fiber laser
components, which are associated with high costs, low maturity,
poor reliability and excessive power consumption for automotive
applications. Ultra presents the ultimate solution that the
automotive industry needs today: top-notch performance coupled with
superior scalability.”
Ultra is by far the smallest, slimmest high-performance
automotive lidar on the market today. Similar performing lidar
systems are typically triple the volume and double the height. With
its extremely compact form factor and power efficiency, Ultra is
designed for seamless integration into various locations on a
vehicle without the need for an additional cooling system. It can
be embedded behind the windshield and into the roofline, the
headlamps and the fascia, enabling high-precision perception for
various automotive use cases.
Ultra’s software definable field of view and ROIs enable
adaptive perception capabilities to help the vehicle stay focused
on high-priority objects. The ROIs are dynamically tunable,
creating real-time zones around key objects, such as vehicles and
pedestrians, making them stand out against background objects that
do not require as many data points. This increases the overall
energy efficiency of the automotive perception system without
compromising precision. The MagnoSteer architecture also enables
more advanced perception capabilities within a single-sensor
architecture in the future.
Ultra is enabled by Cepton’s proprietary ASIC chipset, which the
company has invested in developing since 2019. Integrating advanced
ASICs for both front-end signal processing and back-end point cloud
processing, the chipset enhances the technical advantages of
MagnoSteer to optimize lidar image quality while minimizing sensor
footprint, power consumption and cost.
Dr. Jun Pei, CEO and Co-founder of Cepton, says: “Ultra stands
as the epitome of innovation in automotive lidar, with an
unprecedented combination of industry-leading performance, low
power consumption and unrivaled compactness. By utilizing our
experience in industrializing lidar for mass-market applications,
we expect to reduce Ultra’s development time by a third as compared
to the past, thereby shortening time to market. Targeting a volume
price point significantly lower than today’s lidar prices, Ultra is
poised to enhance vehicle safety across all levels of
automation.”
Cepton will be showcasing Ultra during CES 2024, held from
January 9th to 12th in Las Vegas, NV. Visit the Cepton team at
Booth No. 4040, LVCC or submit a meeting request form to learn
more.
About Cepton
Cepton is a Silicon Valley innovator of lidar-based solutions
for automotive (ADAS/AV), smart cities, smart spaces and smart
industrial applications. With its patented lidar technology, Cepton
aims to take lidar mainstream and achieve a balanced approach to
performance, cost and reliability, while enabling scalable and
intelligent 3D perception solutions across industries.
Founded in 2016 and led by industry veterans with decades of
collective experience across a wide range of advanced lidar and
imaging technologies, Cepton is focused on the mass market
commercialization of high performance, high quality lidar
solutions. Cepton is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has a center
of excellence facility in Troy, MI to provide local support to
automotive customers in the Metro Detroit area. Cepton also has a
presence in Germany to serve European customers. For more
information, visit www.cepton.com and follow Cepton on Twitter and
LinkedIn.
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