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Autonomous Vehicles. Let the car do the driving !. P&O 2010 Dennis Bevers. Audi TTS High speed Pikes Peak hillclimb Top Gear BMW 330i Self driving predefined path on a track VW Passat Fully autonomous driving in real traffic Google Cars Seven fully autonomous vehicles.
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AutonomousVehicles Let the car do the driving! P&O 2010 Dennis Bevers
Audi TTS • High speed PikesPeakhillclimb • Top Gear BMW 330i • Selfdrivingpredefinedpathon a track • VW Passat • Fullyautonomousdriving in realtraffic • Google Cars • Sevenfullyautonomousvehicles Recent Projects
Volkswagen & StanfordUniversity • Native Audi Technology • drive-by-wire throttle • semiautomatic DSG gearbox • 2 ordinary computers running: • safetycriticalalgorithmsusingJava RTS • vehicledynamicsalgorithms. • PikesPeakHillclimb Race Audi TTS
Top Gear Test Track • Military grade GPS system • +140km/u BMW 330i
Germany's TU Braunschweig • DARPA UrbanChallenge • GPS, laser and sensor-guided • Real Life Traffic • speed limits • regular streets • merge into highway traffic • stop at red lights and stop signs • automatically react to hazards VW Passat
Toyota Prius & Audi TT • 1,000 milesfullyautonomously • Google Maps + Google Datacenters • Google CEO Eric Schmidt • “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers… Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense.” Google Cars
To drive a car, a system would need to: • Understand its immediate environment (Sensors) • Know where it is and where it wants to go (Navigation) • Find its way in the traffic (Motion planning) • Operate the mechanics of the vehicle (Actuation) Technology
Fullyautonomous • Vehiclesforpavedroads • Free-rangingvehicles • Pre-builtinfrastructure • Dualmode transit – monorail • Automatedhighwaysystems • Free-rangingongrid • Driver-assistance • Sensorial-informative • Actuation-corrective • Systemic Technology