A methodology to model the rain and fog effect on the performance of automotive lidar sensors

A Haider, M Pigniczki, S Koyama, MH Köhler, L Haas… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, we introduce a novel approach to model the rain and fog effect on the light
detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor performance for the simulation-based testing of …

Analysis of automotive lidar sensor model considering scattering effects in regional rain environments

M Byeon, SW Yoon - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automotive Lidar sensors are highly susceptible to their environment. One of its major
limitations results from the effects of rain environments, which should be seriously …

Automotive LiDAR performance verification in fog and rain

M Kutila, P Pyykönen, H Holzhüter… - 2018 21st …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on testing and investigating further development needs for LiDARs in
self-driving cars in adverse weather. The article compares two different LiDARs (Ibeo Lux …

A quantitative analysis of point clouds from automotive lidars exposed to artificial rain and fog

K Montalban, C Reymann, D Atchuthan, PE Dupouy… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Light Detection And Ranging sensors (lidar) are key to autonomous driving, but their data is
severely impacted by weather events (rain, fog, snow). To increase the safety and …

Predicting the Influence of Rain on LIDAR in ADAS

C Goodin, D Carruth, M Doude, C Hudson - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
While it is well known that rain may influence the performance of automotive LIDAR sensors
commonly used in ADAS applications, there is a lack of quantitative analysis of this effect. In …

Mitigating effects of uniform fog on SPAD lidars

TH Sang, SY Tsai, TP Yu - IEEE Sensors Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) degrades severely in adverse
weather conditions of which fog is considered one of the worst. In this letter, fog effects on …

Performance modeling a near-infrared tof lidar under fog: A data-driven approach

T Yang, Y Li, Y Ruichek, Z Yan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a critical sensor for high-level autonomous vehicles, LiDAR's limitations in adverse
weather (eg rain, fog, snow, etc.) impede the deployment of self-driving cars in all weather …

Parallel lidars meet the foggy weather

Y Liu, Y Tian, B Sun, Y Wang… - IEEE Journal of Radio …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LiDARs play an important role in autonomous driving. They can provide accurate
information about the surroundings, which is essential for perception tasks. Unfortunately …

What happens for a ToF LiDAR in fog?

Y Li, P Duthon, M Colomb… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By transmitting lasers and processing laser returns, LiDAR (light detection and ranging)
perceives the surrounding environment through distance measurements. Because of high …

A benchmark for lidar sensors in fog: Is detection breaking down?

M Bijelic, T Gruber, W Ritter - 2018 IEEE intelligent vehicles …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving at level five does not only means self-driving in the sunshine. Adverse
weather is especially critical because fog, rain, and snow degrade the perception of the …