{"id":88247,"date":"2019-02-28T17:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/researchers-develop-a-fleet-of-16-miniature-cars-for-cooperative-driving-experiments"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:43:03","slug":"researchers-develop-a-fleet-of-16-miniature-cars-for-cooperative-driving-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/researchers-develop-a-fleet-of-16-miniature-cars-for-cooperative-driving-experiments","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop a fleet of 16 miniature cars for cooperative driving experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2oJFQnbN5CA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at The University of Cambridge has recently introduced a unique experimental testbed that could be used for experiments in cooperative driving. This testbed, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, consists of 16 miniature Ackermann-steering vehicles called Cambridge Minicars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing true-scale facilities for vehicle testbeds is expensive and requires a vast amount of space,\u201d Amanda Prorok. \u201cOur main objective was to build a low-cost, multi-vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/experimental+setup\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">experimental setup<\/a> that is easy to maintain and that is easy to use to prototype new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/autonomous+driving\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autonomous driving<\/a> algorithms. In particular, we were interested in testing and tangibly demonstrating the benefits of cooperative driving on multi-lane road topographies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Studies investigating cooperative driving are often expensive and time consuming due to a lack of available low-cost platforms that researchers can use to test their systems and algorithms. Prorok and her colleagues thus set out to develop an effective and inexpensive experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/testbed\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">testbed<\/a> that could ultimately support research into cooperative driving and multi-car navigation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-02-fleet-miniature-cars-cooperative.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019&#45;02-fleet-miniature-cars-cooperative.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at The University of Cambridge has recently introduced a unique experimental testbed that could be used for experiments in cooperative driving. This testbed, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, consists of 16 miniature Ackermann-steering vehicles called Cambridge Minicars. \u201cUsing true-scale facilities for vehicle testbeds is expensive and requires a vast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}