Situation

GM Research was developing autonomous vehicle features on PCs; was looking for help to move to embedded platform.

Activities

• Designed and supplied embedded system with LVDS cameras and processing module.
• Developed camera API for CUDA, OpenCL with zero-copy approach.
• Invented camera + Lidar calibration for multiple sensors in same coordinate system.

Results

• Camera API widely used within GM.
• Approximately 50 vehicles equipped with Cogent-provided hardware with Cogent support.
• GM prefers Cogent development platform over Tier 1 alternative: More flexible.