{"id":103281,"date":"2020-03-04T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/invisible-headlights"},"modified":"2020-03-04T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:36","slug":"invisible-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/invisible-headlights","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/invisible-headlights.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous and semi-autonomous systems need active illumination to navigate at night or underground. Switching on visible headlights or some other emitting system like lidar, however, has a significant drawback: It allows adversaries to detect a vehicle\u2019s presence, in some cases from long distances away.<\/p>\n<p>To eliminate this vulnerability, DARPA announced the Invisible Headlights program. The fundamental research effort seeks to discover and quantify information contained in ambient thermal emissions in a wide variety of environments and to create new passive 3D sensors and algorithms to exploit that information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aiming to make completely passive navigation in pitch dark conditions possible,\u201d said Joe Altepeter, program manager in DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office. \u201cIn the depths of a cave or in the dark of a moonless, starless night with dense fog, current autonomous systems can\u2019t make sense of the environment without radiating some signal\u2014whether it\u2019s a laser pulse, radar or visible light beam\u2014all of which we want to avoid. If it involves emitting a signal, it\u2019s not invisible for the sake of this program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous and semi-autonomous systems need active illumination to navigate at night or underground. Switching on visible headlights or some other emitting system like lidar, however, has a significant drawback: It allows adversaries to detect a vehicle\u2019s presence, in some cases from long distances away. To eliminate this vulnerability, DARPA announced the Invisible Headlights program. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}