Autonomous Navigation with Improved Visual Terrain Recognition

An algorithm developed at Caltech lets machines teach themselves how to recognize landscapes, even amid the changing seasons.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-algorithm-helps-autonomous-vehicles-find-themselves-summer-or-winter

The Science Robotics paper is titled "A Seasonally-Invariant Deep Transform for Visual Terrain-Relative Navigation." 

Aeva, Maker of the First 4D LiDAR on Chip,

 frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar

https://www.aeva.ai/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aeva-maker-of-the-first-4d-lidar-on-chip-to-be-listed-on-nyse-through-business-combination-with-interprivate-acquisition-corp-301164925.html