Robotic Vehicles

A new feature that has been introduced in certain recent Ford models, which enables the car to park itself. It does so first by scanning both sides of the road and determines the available spots. Then by using its ultrasonic sensors, it continuously measures the distance, at the same time moving the car back and forwards, at the same time managing the steering. This looks […] Read More

One of the biggest challenges in building autonomous cars is the safety issue which need to be resolved completely before a single autonomous car hits the road. Events such as DARPA grand challenge are designed to improve the capabilities of such vehicles. A recent story in cnet.com talks about designing safe autonomous cars, which have collision avoidance capabilities incorporated into them. The inspiration came from […] Read More

European based Cybercars2 project aims to develop autonomous vehicle capabilities one step further, by adding communication systems between individual vehicles, which may enable a much more efficient transportation system. By exchanging data, vehicles will be able to coordinate their movements. The project team first created software that would simulate all the possible scenarios that vehicles would encounter upon interacting with each other. Of course as […] Read More

Autonomous driving technology has been improving in the recent years. For instance, the competition held every year in the US organized by DARPA has hostedmore and more improved competing autonomous vehicles every subsequent year. While the vehicles were not even able to complete a few miles by themselves just a few years ago, last year, the winning vehicle was able to complete a miles long […] Read More

The Autosub6000 a UK made Autonomous Submarine, will soon start to explore the deep undersea volcanoes in the Caribbean. It has a range of 1,000 kilometers without any battery recharge and can dive up to the depth of 6000 meters. The unit has an advanced GPS system on board and will be used to map the ocean floor as well as discovering new animal specimens. […] Read More