GISA: A Brazilian platform for autonomous cars trials

Author

Hernandes, A.C. ; Brito, A.S. ; Roncancio, H. ; Magalhaes, D.V. ; Becker, Matthias ; Sampaio, R.C.B. ; Jensen, B.T.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sao Paulo/EESC/Mobile Robot./SENA project, Sao Carlos, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

87

Abstract

According to WHO, traffic safety is one of the major concerns of this decade. Due to this, researchers worldwide aim to reduce the large number of fatalities in traffic accidents. This paper presents GISA as a contribution to this scenario. It consists of a platform for testing autonomous car algorithms. Firstly, some requisites to build an autonomous vehicle are presented, followed by sensors, their placement and ROS middleware. Some tests are presented to check the platform performance, including localization issues and obstacle detection. Results show that GISA is a consistent platform for implementation of autonomous car algorithms.

Keywords

automobiles; collision avoidance; mobile robots; road traffic; sensors; Brazilian platform; GISA; ROS middleware; WHO; autonomous cars trials; autonomous vehicle; localization issues; obstacle detection; platform performance; sensors; traffic safety; Accuracy; Cameras; Global Positioning System; Laser radar; Receivers; Sensors; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4567-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4568-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505652

Filename

6505652