From Drive-By-Wire to Autonomous Vehicle: Urban Freight Vehicle Perspectives

Applying Vehicle Tracking and Palmtop Technology to Urban Freight Surveys

Following the success of the Victorian Activity & Travel Survey (VATS) of household travel, the Transport Research Centre (TRC) initiated a Freight Activity & Commercial Travel Survey (FACTS) to provide a much needed database of freight-related information for the Melbourne metropolitan area. The objective is to provide detailed, accurate and current data on freight travel and commercial activi...

A Perception-Driven Autonomous Urban Vehicle

This paper describes the architecture and implementation of an autonomous passenger vehicle designed to navigate using locally perceived information in preference to potentially inaccurate or incomplete map data. The vehicle architecture was designed to handle the original DARPA Urban Challenge requirements of perceiving and navigating a road network with segments defined by sparse waypoints. T...

Area Coverage Provided by Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication in an Urban Network in an Urban Networkerage Provided by Vehicle to Vehicle Communication in an Urban Network

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Fuzzy/neural Drive Control of an Autonomous Vehicle

Vehicle Steer-by-Wire System Control

This paper describes a method for controlling a vehicle steer-by-wire system. It gives a novel control structure for the steer-by-wire system to implement steering functions and to improve the vehicle handling performance. The paper focuses on the implementation of various steering functions by applying control design methods. Some vehicle test results are included.