AVINT: AUTOMATED VEHICLE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND PILOT TESTS IN THE CITY OF TRIKALA, GREECE

Abstract

Automated vehicles is one of the more exciting areas of the automotive industry today. The general perception is a fully automated car where the driver can handle other matters while the car is driving by itself, and this will start becoming reality within the next years [1],[2]. In many cases the purpose is not to transport the driver from one point to another as in a private car but instead perform tasks at a work site. Even if the equipment will be able to carry out the work without support from an onboard or on-site operator, there is a need for supervision, to take control remotely if something unexpected happens. For this to function a system must be designed, configured, and built as a control center. In this control center an operator will be able to supervise and monitor the status of several vehicles (up to 4 in the Greek legislation). If needed the operator can give the vehicle appropriate commands for the vehicle to be able to continue its task [4]. The purpose of the work carried out is to specify requirements for, design and implement a prototype of a system for operation of a normally autonomous vehicle. The existence of standards is investigated. The standards are taken into account in the development and implementation of the system. In any case a general and scalable solution that can be used on several types of vehicles is developed. An interface towards the autonomous vehicle is created together with a control center with controls and information from the vehicle.