AMA Innovation Award 2024
AMA Innovation Award for photonically integrated FMCW single-chip LiDAR
High-tech from Ulm reduces costs, size and weight of complete LiDAR systems
On 11 June, the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) presented Stanislav Aksarin and his team of developers with the AMA Innovation Award at the SENSOR+TEST 2024 in Nuremberg. The photonically integrated FMCW single-chip LiDAR from Scantinel Photonics GmbH impressed the jury with its high technological level and clear market relevance. Peter Krause (Chairman of the AMA Association) and Professor Andreas Schütze (Chairman of the jury) presented the winning team, consisting of Stanislav Aksarin, Vladimir Davydenko and Andy Zott, with the prize money of 10,000 euros for their outstanding achievement.
The development team from Scantinel Photonics GmbH has realised a ground-breaking single-chip FMCW-LiDAR based on a photonically integrated platform. This technology takes autonomous mobility to the next level by solving the challenges of existing LIDAR sensors, utilising CMOS-compatible photonic integration platforms and significantly reducing the cost, size and weight of the final LiDAR system.
‘On behalf of the entire jury, I would like to congratulate this year's winning team, which demonstrates a very high technological level with its photonically integrated FMCW single-chip LiDAR,’ said Professor Andreas Schütze, jury chairman from Saarland University, explaining this year's decision. ‘With the integration of the optical function compatible with standard CMOS electronics, the cost, size and weight of complete LiDAR systems can be significantly reduced. This opens up new applications and new market potential. These are precisely the criteria that our jury uses as a basis. We assess the novelty, the level of innovation and the originality of the technical solution, as well as the market opportunities and the patent situation. The photonically integrated FMCW single-chip LiDAR brings everything together, a high technological level forms the basis, it is a genuine invention that has very good market opportunities. Congratulations to the whole team!’
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