Autonomous vehicles promise a future with a safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable transportation system. However, the current approach to autonomy has focused on building small, disparate intelligences that are closed off to the rest of the world. Vehicle connectivity has been proposed as a solution, relying on a vision of the future where a mix of connected autonomous and human-driven vehicles populate the road. Developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration as a reusable, extensible platform for controlling connected autonomous vehicles, the CARMA Platform is one of the technologies enabling this connected future. Nevertheless, the adoption of the CARMA Platform has been slow, with a contributing factor being the limited, expensive, and relatively old vehicle configurations that are officially supported. To alleviate this problem, we propose X-CAR (eXperimental vehicle platform for Connected Autonomy Research). By implementing the CARMA Platform on more affordable, high quality hardware, X-CAR aims to increase the versatility of the CARMA Platform and facilitate its adoption for research and development of connected driving automation.
翻译:自治车辆有望有一个更安全、更清洁、更高效和更可靠的运输系统的未来,然而,目前自治办法的重点是建立与世界其他地方隔绝的小型、不同情报系统; 车辆连通性建议是一个解决方案,依靠的是将连接的自主车辆和人驱动车辆混合在一起并铺设道路的未来愿景; 由美国交通部联邦高速公路管理局开发,作为可再利用的、可扩展的平台,用于控制连接的自主车辆,卡马平台是促成这一连通未来的技术之一; 然而,卡马平台的采用速度缓慢,其促成因素之一是有限、昂贵和相对老旧的车辆配置得到官方支持; 为缓解这一问题,我们提议X-CAR(连接自动化研究的车辆平台); X-CARA(CAR)实施CARMA平台,采用更廉价、优质的硬件,X-CAR旨在增加卡马平台的多功能,便利其用于相关驾驶自动化的研发。