In recent years, the rapid development of laser radar technology, from the beginning of laser ranging technology, has gradually developed laser speed measurement, laser scanning imaging, laser Doppler imaging and other technologies, and now in the field of driverless, AGV, robotics, etc. The presence of a laser radar. With the rise of unmanned driving and robotics, a number of laser radar companies have emerged at home and abroad, in view of the important position of laser radar in various fields.
According to the survey, most companies currently focus on laser radar in the field of unmanned vehicles, robots. Traditional mechanical laser radar has gradually shifted to solid-state laser radar. In terms of price, the number of laser radars in the unmanned field is more than tens of thousands yuan, which is generally higher than the prices of robots and AGVs. In the future, solid-state, small, low-cost laser radar will be the focus of enterprises.
Robot field
In the field of robotics, the companies involved include Sick, Ibeo, Hokuyo, Trimble, and the domestic radium intelligence, Siwei technology, Hesai technology, Beixing photon, and IQ. Among these many companies, Radium Intelligence has a leading edge in terms of price, longevity and performance.
Unmanned vehicle field
When it comes to the field of unmanned vehicles, the industry knows the Velodyne 64 line "big flower pot", which is the darling of autonomous driving. The HDL-32 line and VLP-16 line laser radar are also popular laser radars on the prototype.
Drone field
Domestic and foreign companies focusing on the field of UAV laser radar are Trimble, Innoviz, Riegl, Leica, Sagitar Juchuang, Beixing Photon, Radium Intelligence, and Beijing Branch. Among these companies, Riegl, the largest and most research-intensive company, offers a range of drone-specific lidars to many manufacturers.
AGV field
AGV robots are also the most widely used and marketed areas of laser radar, and are relatively mature markets. The demand for laser lightning in the past two years has also grown rapidly. Since the major e-commerce giants carried goods in the warehouse reference handling robot (AGV), domestic handling robots have ushered in a boom. More and more express logistics companies have begun to follow the tide, and the era of warehousing and intelligent management has arrived. In the indoor storage environment, such as Desik, Beiyang and Pepperl+Fuch are generally used abroad. Major domestic manufacturers include Radium Intelligence, Intelli, and Tianhe Electronics, which are also actively deploying the AGV mobile robot market. They already have navigation and obstacle avoidance related products, and are also mature applications.
In addition to the trend from mechanical to mixed solid state to pure solid state, we also learned that the development of laser radar has become smaller, the cost is lower, and the market demand is increasing. According to the latest research report, by 2022, the global laser radar market size will reach 921.2 million US dollars, with a compound annual growth rate of 18.5%. In addition to the above application scenarios, laser radar can be applied in more scenarios in the future, such as precision agriculture, entertainment media, and commercial applications.