Harbrick Releases Standard Driverless Car Operating System
Screenshot of PolySync V1.0 Autonomous Vehicle Operating System. Photo: Harbrick.
Harbrick is releasing PolySync V1.0, an out-of-box autonomous vehicle operating system, after a year and a half of beta testing.
“We were working with the most advanced autonomous vehicle developers, and they were doing all of this back-end coding,” says Harbrick Founder Josh Hartung. “Everyone’s code was different and incompatible.”
His solution was to create a standard operating system for cars that would operate as a plug-and-play solution for developers and engineers to start adding features immediately.
PolySync supports all major autonomous vehicle sensors including Velodyne and Ibeo lidar, Delphi and SMS radar, and many camera types. Obscure hardware that is not currently compatible can be easily added, according to a company press release.
During beta, the software has been used by various members in the autonomous vehicle industry, including Renesas for demonstration cars.
“All these big auto manufacturers talk about getting semi-autonomous cars on the road in 10 years,” says Hartung. “We think that with PolySync, they can make that happen. I actually think it could happen sooner.”
