Intelligent functions development on autonomous electric vehicle platform

Abstract

Autonomous driving is no longer just an idea of technology vision instead a real technical trend all over the world. The continuing development to a further level of autonomy requires more on mobile robots safety while bringing more challenges to human-vehicle interaction. A robot autonomous vehicle (AV) as a research platform operates an experimental study on human-AV-interaction (HAVI) and performs a novel method for mobile robot safety assurance. Not only autonomous driving technology itself but human cognition also performs an essential role in how to ensure better autonomous mobile robot safety. A Wizard-of-Oz experiment in the university combing a survey-based study indicates public attitudes towards driverless robot vehicles. HAVI experiment have been carried through light patterns designed for experiment. This paper presents an attempt to investigate humans' acceptance and emotions as well as a validation to bring the mobile robot vehicle to a high-level autonomy.

Autonomous Vehicles Energy Based Operation Capacity Planning

“…In future research steps, all the simulated results will be tested in a laboratory-scale experimental environment. Also, implementation into intelligent functions development on autonomous electric vehicle platform [17] are planned.…”

Use case of Autonomous Vehicle shuttle and passenger acceptance analysis

“…After tests and modifications according to the prescribed rules of the authorities, the shuttles were restructured to meet the standards and were granted the permission to enter the public road traffic as EU M1 category vehicles. In parallel, new intelligent functions such as human-autonomous vehicle interaction methods [10] were experimented on TalTech campus by the Autonomous Vehicles research group.…”

Autonomous vehicle safety evaluation through a high-fidelity simulation approach

“…1). The vehicle was designed and developed from scratch by implementing the previously proposed mechatronic design methodology [13][14][15] with a special focus on early design stages. The first prototype development was a joint venture with TalTech and the local industry Silberauto [16].…”