ISRobotCar: The autonomous electric vehicle project

Author

Silva, Marco ; Moita, Fernando ; Nunes, Urbano ; Garrote, Luís ; Faria, Hugo ; Ruivo, João

Author_Institution

Inst. of Syst. & Robot., Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

7-12 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

4233

Lastpage

4234

Abstract

The video shows an overview of the ISRobotCar, an experimental autonomous electric vehicle that integrates the robot operating system (ROS.org) and several sensors such as an IBEO laser scanner, inertial measurement units (IMU), RTK-GPS, vision cameras, and magnet detectors for magnetic guidance. The main purpose of this vehicle is to serve as a platform for experimental testing of algorithms required for autonomous navigation and cooperative navigation in urban environments. In the video, we present the ISRobotCar moving autonomously in a parking-like area as well as its main hardware and control modules.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; electric vehicles; mobile robots; navigation; operating systems (computers); optical scanners; path planning; robot programming; robot vision; IBEO laser scanner; IMU; ISRobotCar; ROS.org; RTK-GPS; autonomous electric vehicle project; autonomous navigation; cooperative navigation; experimental testing; inertial measurement units; magnet detectors; magnetic guidance; parking-like area; robot operating system; urban environments; vision cameras; Conferences; Control systems; Global Positioning System; Mobile robots; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilamoura

ISSN

2153-0858

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1737-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2012.6386292

Filename

6386292