Experimental Evaluation of Perception and Actuation Architectures for the Articulated Vehicle Automatic Control

Nowadays, with highly developed instrumentation, sensing and actuation technologies it is possible to foresee an important advance in the field of autonomous and semi-autonomous transportation systems. Among the most promising transport infrastructures the articulated bus is an interesting, low cost and friendly option. In this paper an experimental set-up for research on automatic control of articulated bus is presented. Comprised by a mobile platform (the articulated bus) fully instrumented and a ground test area of asphalt roads inside CSIC premises, this experimental facility allows full testing of automatic driving systems. Paper presents obtained experimental results linked to real time testing of proposed control-perception architectures and a human-machineinterface developed to ease progress in control system evaluation.