The optoelectronic industry is one of Taiwan’s important technological industry development industries, and includes many daily visible technological products. For example, a smartphone with more than one hand includes LED flash lighting, solar chargers, display panels, and touch panels. Control panels, optical lenses, image sensors, surface-emitting lasers, infrared sensors, laser focus sensors, and other upstream optoelectronic related products, as well as LiDAR technology in self-driving cars, are all optoelectronic related products that are cutting-edge, key components that are indispensable in technology products.
LIDAR (a combination of light and radar) is an indispensable component of many autonomous vehicles. It measures distance through light and becomes the eyes of autonomous vehicles.
Light Detection and Ranging is abbreviated as LiDAR or laser radar. It is an optical remote sensing technology that uses light to measure the distance of a target. LiDAR can measure the distance with high precision, recognize the appearance of objects, and build a 3D geographic information model around it. The advantages of distance measurement, high precision, and high recognition etc., are not affected by the brightness of the environment. It can sense the shape and distance of surrounding obstacles day and night. The scanning range is 100-200 meters, which can meet the needs of self-driving cars’ more precise sensing needs.