Recently, the MaRS Laboratory team at the University of Hong Kong introduced a drone system called SUPER (Safety-Assured High-Speed Aerial Robot) in the journal Science Robotics. This system is capable of autonomous flight at speeds exceeding 20 m/s in unknown environments.

  

With the advanced perception capabilities of the Mid-360 LiDAR, SUPER can efficiently detect and avoid thin obstacles such as wires, and is also able to autonomously navigate in dark environments.

     

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ado6187

  

Open-source code: https://github.com/hku-mars/SUPER

Livox Technology Company Limited (Livox) is an independent company founded through DJI's internal incubation program and dedicated to the development of 3D lidar technology.

 

Livox was founded in 2016 with the resolve to break through technological barriers in the lidar industry and reduce the threshold for mass production by producing high-quality, reliable, and cost-efficient lidar sensors that can be applied in a wide range of fields, including the automotive industry, smart cities, surveying and mapping, and mobile robots.

 

Over the past few years, Livox has applied for 587 patents for its unique sensor designs and rotating mirror hybrid solid-state lidar technology. Since the Mid product series was rolled out in January 2019, Livox has served more than 1500 customers, from 26 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and the European Union.