The TerraMax Autonomous Vehicle concludes the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge

Author

Braid, Deborah ; Broggi, Alberto ; Schmiedel, Gary

Author_Institution

Rockwell Collins, IA

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

539

Abstract

The TerraMax autonomous vehicle is based on Oshkosh truck´s medium tactical vehicle replacement (MTVR) truck platform and was one of the 5 vehicles able to successfully reach the finish line of the 132 miles DARPA Grand Challenge desert race. Due to its size and the narrow passages, TerraMax had to travel slowly, but its capabilities demonstrated the maturity of the overall system. Rockwell Collins developed the autonomous intelligent vehicle management system (iVMS) which includes vehicle sensor management, navigation and control systems; the University of Parma provided the vehicle´s vision system, while Oshkosh Truck Corp. provided project management, system integration, low level controls hardware, modeling and simulation support and the vehicle

Keywords

automotive electronics; remotely operated vehicles; road vehicles; traffic engineering computing; DARPA Grand Challenge; TerraMax autonomous vehicle; intelligent vehicle management system; medium tactical vehicle replacement; navigation control system; vehicle sensor management; vehicle vision system; Control system synthesis; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent vehicles; Level control; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Navigation; Project management; Remotely operated vehicles; Sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

4-901122-86-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2006.1689683

Filename

1689683