Veoneer Collaborated with Bajara to Deliver Spectrum-Scan LiDAR for Next-Gen Autonomous Vehicles

After extensive testing, Veoneer decided to cooperate with Baraja because its technology and roadmap lent themselves to becoming among the smallest size lidars for car integration.

FREMONT, CA: Veoneer, an automotive technology business, recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Baraja, a pioneering LiDAR firm, to industrialize its Spectrum-Scan LiDAR technology for the next market wave of L2+ through L4 autonomous vehicle applications.

Veoneer will develop, sell, and integrate a scalable Spectrum-Scan platform from Baraja for the automotive market under the non-exclusive arrangement. After extensive testing, Veoneer decided to cooperate with Baraja because its technology and roadmap lent themselves to becoming among the smallest size lidars for car integration.

“Veoneer is a natural partner for us.  We built our Spectrum-Scan technology to enable autonomous driving that is safer, more accessible and ready today for the next generation of vehicles. By combining our technology with Veoneer’s vast experience in automotive design and platform integration, this partnership helps ensure the world’s leading automotive brands can bring that autonomous reality to more people,” said Federico Collarte, Founder and CEO, Baraja.

Spectrum-Scan by Baraja LiDAR uses a wavelength-tunable laser and prism-like optics to deflect light in multiple directions for more reliable scanning at a cheaper cost. In comparison to standard Time of Flight (ToF) techniques, Baraja’s RMCW technology provides industry-leading interference rejection and the ability to quantify instantaneous velocity.

Spectrum-Scan Enables Level 4 Autonomy

Spectrum-Scan Baraja LiDAR revolutionizes how self-driving cars perceive their surroundings. It scans the environment using dispersive optics rather than delicate moving elements and oscillating mirrors, considerably boosting reliability and robustness over typical FMCW or spinning LiDAR. The Spectrum-Scan LiDAR from Baraja generates high-resolution point clouds that can accurately detect objects up to 250 meters distant at fast speeds while staying immune to interference from other sensors or light sources.

“Veoneer is committed to offering safe, robust, high-quality sensor solutions to vehicle manufacturers globally. We have performed extensive research among 70 LiDAR technology companies globally, and have come to the conclusion that by partnering with Baraja, Veoneer will be able to offer and integrate scalable automotive-grade LiDAR-sensors in future cars, at competitive prices,” said Jan Carlson, Chairman, President and CEO, Veoneer.

Heat, shock, and vibration are also less of a hindrance to the technology than they are to typical LiDAR systems. Baraja has put its LiDAR through its paces, from the Australian desert to the polar tundra, to ensure that it operates in every environment. This technology will be combined with Veoneer’s decades of experience building automotive-grade sensing technologies for driver assistance and autonomy applications to produce a new generation of LiDAR systems that will allow manufacturers to detect and categorize things more quickly and accurately.