This article deals with the optimal design of ground vehicles and their subsystems, with particular reference to ‘active’ safety and comfort. A review of state-of-the-art optimization methods for solving vehicle system design problems, including the integration of electronic controls, is given, thus further encouraging the use of such methods as standard tools for automotive engineers. Particul...

The deployment of an autonomous and teleoperated vehicle in tropical environments presents numerous challenges due to the extreme conditions encountered. This paper presents the transformation of a M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier into an autonomous and teleoperated vehicle for operation in jungle-like conditions. The system was partitioned into functional systems: Vehicle Control/Mobility, Pilo...

The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) is an international collegiate robotics competition that tasks each team to design, build, and program a fully autonomous mobile ground vehicle. Each successful entry must autonomously navigate through an outdoor obstacle course using only the sensors and computing power on-board the robot. As per the offical rules, the competition is split into...

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We present a system that estimates the motion of a stereo head or a single moving camera based on video input. The system operates in real-time with low delay and the motion estimates are used for navigational purposes. The front end of the system is a feature tracker. Point features are matched between pairs of frames and linked into image trajectories at video rate. Robust estimates of the ca...

Evaluation of intelligence in Teams of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) requires the development of consistent metrics and benchmarks. This is a complicated process as the implementation of the UGVs is problem and domain specific. Different performance requirements give rise to different set of metrics making the comparison of performance between two implementations difficult. In this paper, we ...

Recent results are presented from the application of a grid-free vortex method to the prediction of turbulent aerodynamic flows produced by road vehicles. The approach has the character of a large eddy simulation and incorporates a fast technique for evaluating the mutual interactions of several million vortex elements needed in describing the dynamically significant structure of the turbulent ...

12 1094-7167/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS industry has established more than 600 joint ventures and introduced 1,000 foreign technical inventions over the last 20 years. The total foreign investment has exceeded US$20 billion, more than 40 percent of the total Chinese automotive capital. The 2001 output reached 2.34 million vehicles, up from 0.71 million in 1991. This is a 3.3...

Unmanned ground vehicle is an autonomous vehicle that mainly capable to do tasks independent of humans. Automated vehicle works during off road navigation and mainly used in military operations. The radio environment on electrically small platforms is changing rapidly. In order to support high speed audio and video, processing needs higher data rates concerned with sending and receiving data pa...