Founded in 2015, the Piaggio Group's robotics subsidiary, Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), is working on 4D radar technology that provides reliable obstacle detection in structures that are more complex than cars.
One of the areas of application is, of course, the market for motorcycles, where services known from the world of cars (blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning, collision avoidance braking) must be implemented with a tilted motorcycle (ie a variable position sensor). The millimeter-wavelength, radar-integrated radar alone is capable of serving all of these functions, with a real detection range of over 100 meters, and a wide viewing angle in both vertical and horizontal ranges.
Piaggio, Vespa, Gilera, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Derbi and Scarabeo, the group's first radar-powered motorcycles, could hit the market next year. Even sooner, even this year, another, no less important use of the technology will be realized: PFF intends to integrate the compact sensor into industrial robots, which will enable them to detect their surroundings more accurately than ever before.
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