Abstract In order to develop autonomous navigation tasks for transportation systems or for fulfilling certain agriculture or industrial tasks, vehicle prototypes are needed. These vehicles cannot be reinvented every time. Existing vehicles are transformed by using a data processor that replaces the driver. Furthermore, depending on the vehicle type, actuators (e.g. steering or braking), sensors that observe the environment and interfaces to the information provided by the vehicle must be integrated. This process differs from vehicle to vehicle. In this paper we present a (further) solution for such a reconstruction, which is, indeed not completely general, but due to its modular architecture, the open software implementation and the use of open source components, easy to apply on new systems. The paper presents the hardware and software implementation on two vehicles. A third and a fourth one are planned. The electric power unit is not mandatory but helpful for the transformation, because an intervention in an already electric vehicle is easier to carry out.
A Method for Transforming Electric Vehicles to Become Autonomous Vehicles
2016-11-01
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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