- Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:22 pm
#24637
okay, the idea is for autonomous vehicles in a simplified environment for transporting goods from one place to another.
google's autonomous vehicles are a great feat of engineering because they deal with a lot of variables in the real world: traffic, the mother with the baby stroller crossing the street, road construction, etc.
but a certain amount of traffic on a countries highways is freight. The 16 wheelers transporting raw materials and goods from factories to ports and vice versa.
if some of the highway infrastructure was dedicated to only transporting freight using only autonomous vehicles, the engineering problem would become simplified.
all you would need is , aside from the map information, is a redundant positioning system, say gps or radio markers along the road, or both or something else altogether.
aside from that you would need to control that the autonomous vehicles generally get to where they need to go and and that they not crash into each other. this can be done in a decentralized distributed way by maybe allowing the on board guidance systems to communicate between each other or with basic sensor feedback or (probably) both or something else.
picture a cylindrical container on top of a omnidirectional skateboard (similar to gm's hywire).
this skateboard would be self contained, including the electric vehicle parts, the batteries, the guidance computer, etc.
the algorithm could be as simple as a flocking algorithm in 2d to keep the independent vehicles from bumping into each other.
there would be off ramps all along the way so that any vehicle could reach said port or a factory. and a basic communication system would be necessary to call vehicles back or reroute, things like that.
anyway, that�s it
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google's autonomous vehicles are a great feat of engineering because they deal with a lot of variables in the real world: traffic, the mother with the baby stroller crossing the street, road construction, etc.
but a certain amount of traffic on a countries highways is freight. The 16 wheelers transporting raw materials and goods from factories to ports and vice versa.
if some of the highway infrastructure was dedicated to only transporting freight using only autonomous vehicles, the engineering problem would become simplified.
all you would need is , aside from the map information, is a redundant positioning system, say gps or radio markers along the road, or both or something else altogether.
aside from that you would need to control that the autonomous vehicles generally get to where they need to go and and that they not crash into each other. this can be done in a decentralized distributed way by maybe allowing the on board guidance systems to communicate between each other or with basic sensor feedback or (probably) both or something else.
picture a cylindrical container on top of a omnidirectional skateboard (similar to gm's hywire).
this skateboard would be self contained, including the electric vehicle parts, the batteries, the guidance computer, etc.
the algorithm could be as simple as a flocking algorithm in 2d to keep the independent vehicles from bumping into each other.
there would be off ramps all along the way so that any vehicle could reach said port or a factory. and a basic communication system would be necessary to call vehicles back or reroute, things like that.
anyway, that�s it
Reward: no rights reserved.