📋 Tender Overview
Danfoss Power Solutions isinvestingheavily in autonomy to ensure thatitstechnological solutionsand productsare ready for the off-highway commercial market.To further enhance its offering the company has partnered with Ouster a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the industrial automation smart infrastructure robotics and automotive industries. It is integrating Ousters sensors within its PLUS1 L3 Autonomy Package software platform which includes the XM100 Danfoss Power Solutions first PLUS1 Autonomous controller as well as the companys PLUS1 Autonomous Control Library ACL. Danfoss Power Solutions has created the PLUS1 platform to support its customers in the design of the next generation of off-highway machines and to shorten product development time. The integration of Ousters sensors within the platform will be suited for remote machine management operator assistance row following obstacle avoidance and task automation. The beta version is now available for a select number of customers while the complete compliance block will be released in the fourth quarter of 2021. Commenting on the new partnership Peter Bleday Danfoss Power Solutions Head of Autonomous Vehicles said We are thrilled to bring such a great partner and technology onto our PLUS1 platform. This partnership will enable our customers to integrate Ousters lidars quickly and easily into their system which will accelerate their time to market. Thanks to this partnership our customers will be better equipped to incorporate operator assist and autonomous solutions into their machines. Nate Dickerman President of Field Operations at Ouster Inc. added We are excited to partner with Danfoss as we seek to enable greater levels of autonomy across the industrialized economy with our digital lidar. The Danfoss PLUS 1 Platforms control interface makes it easy for OEMs and other customers to adopt our sensors on robotic machinery whether it be indoor warehouse robots or autonomous tractors in the field. We expect the offering to reduce integration time and the end applications time to market.
