Kudan has already been demonstrating outstanding capability in important use cases.
Autonomous driving/ HD map
More safety, more reliability, and more scalability
- Provides a critical element of autonomous driving; accurate location, supported by available GNSS data but still effective in GNSS denied environments.
- Works in parallel with existing software with a “software fusion” approach to enable greater safety and reliability.
- State-of-the-art relocalization using “GN-net” massively expands autonomous driving capability in tough situations (e.g. bad weather, summer vs winter season).
- Brings more robustness to HD maps by integrating maps created by Kudan / Artisense SLAM.
Benefits of Kudan software
- More accurate location and robustness from tightly-coupled Visual-Lidar SLAM.
- Significantly lighter Lidar map (original raw data can be reduced by more than 300x).
- Ultra-low-latency localization using IMU fusion (data rate can be greater than 1000Hz).
- And many more features!
Example projects
- localization software for autonomous vehicles, robo taxis.
- Autonomous vehicle parking solution.
- Kudan software and sensors packaged as a single SLAM sensor module.
- Lidar calibration tool leveraging SLAM.
- Integrate map layers created by KudanSLAM into existing HD map layers.
Industrial Robotics
More robustness and/or lower required HW cost
- Robust localization and accurate mapping, even against dynamic environments with moving people and changing scenery.
- Multiple functions to easily handle very large scale maps.
Benefits Kudan software brings
- More accurate location and robustness from tightly-coupled Visual-Lidar SLAM.
- Significantly lighter Lidar map (original raw data can be reduced by more than 300x).
- Large-scale and robot-model agnostic solutions.
- Lower required sensor cost.
- And many more features!
Example projects
- localization software for indoor autonomous mobile robots in warehouses, retail stores, offices, power plants, and others.
- Outdoor delivery robots development.
- Kudan software and sensors packaged as a single SLAM sensor module.
- Retrofitting existing machinery with Kudan software to enable autonomy.
Consumer Robotics
More robustness and accuracy on constrained devices
Benefits Kudan software brings
- Flexible sensor setup (leveraging multiple types of cameras while fusing with other sensors)
- Ability to run on low grade processor and small memory footprint (eg. Raspberry Pi 4)
- Map and relocalize across multiple rooms or spaces
- Fast, accurate and robust tracking even in dynamic environments
- And many more features!
Example projects
- Consumer vacuum cleaning robots
- Home security, educational, service and companion robots
- Micro drones
Drones/ UAV
Robust and accurate localization with cost effective sensor setup
- KudanSLAM runs on lower grade CPUs, even without a GPU, but will accelerate with higher grade ones.
- Accurate in GNSS-denied areas, but can take advantage of them when available.
- Handles dynamic 3D scene-movement.
Benefits Kudan software brings
- Save on hardware cost, leveraging affordable processors and sensors.
- Wider effectiveness including underground environments and crowded downtown areas (e.g. Tokyo, Miami, New York).
- Flexibility on sensor types and their combinations.
- Higher productivity thanks to real-time processing capability.
- And many more features!
Example projects
- Mobile mapping systems and drones with lower grade INS/GNSS
- Integrate Kudan software into an existing surveying solution.
- Surveying conducted in urban metropolitan areas.
Inspection/ surveying/ mapping
Better mapping with affordable sensor setup and applicable to more situations
- No need for an expensive GNSS/INS as the main localization approach.
- Enables surveying players to go surpass current limitations at a much more affordable cost.
Benefits Kudan software brings
- More accurate 3D reconstruction and maps.
- Wider effectiveness including underground environments and crowded downtown areas (e.g. Tokyo, Miami, New York).
- Lower required sensor cost.
- Higher productivity thanks to real-time processing capability.
- And many more features!
Example projects
- Mobile mapping systems development for drones with lower grade INS/GNSS.
- Integrate Kudan software into an existing surveying solution.
- Surveying conducted in urban metropolitan areas.
AR / VR
Larger-scale, interactive and user-friendly AR/VR solutions
- Greater capability than other SDKs; unlimited map scale, cross-platform compatibility, increased robustness and accuracy.
Benefit Kudan software brings
- Larger scale map usage such as multi-story shopping malls, large plants, and even an entire city.
- Robustness against scenery changes and dynamic objects.
- Easier to keep maps up-to-date.
- And many more features!
Example projects
- AR glasses development for consumer head mount displays, medical industry clients, construction clients, and others.
- AR navigation applications development for indoor facilities (stations, shopping malls).
Smart cities / IoT
Multiple users consume single cloud map created by Kudan software and update this map continuously
- Enables a single map to serve multiple user devices and multiple use cases.
- Maps locations can also be recognized and expanded by multiple types of device.
Benefit Kudan software brings
- Larger scale map usage such as an entire city.
- No need to create a map for each robot or use case, one map can be shared.
Example projects
- AR cloud map to allow internal building localization and navigation overlays on a user’s device.
- Integrating maps created by Kudan software into the new smart city development project.
5G
Showcase 5G’s low latency benefit with KudanSLAM
- Empower applications such as AR/VR and autonomous driving with next generation SLAM technology.
Benefit Kudan software brings with 5G
- Improved user experience in AR/VR with lower latency and increased robustness.
- More safety in autonomous driving / vehicle communication scenarios.
