A System Design for Teleoperated Road Vehicles

Sebastian Gnatzig, Frederic Chucholowski, Tito Tang, Markus Lienkamp

2013

Abstract

The possibility to provision road vehicles unmanned and on demand will have an important influence on the development of new mobility concepts. We therefore present the teleoperated driving of road vehicles. This paper outlines the basic concepts, including a static multi-camera design, an operator interface with a sensor fusion based display, and a cellular network based video transmission and communication architecture. We also show how we manage to fulfill the system’s technical requirements with our hard- and software design and point out the occurring problems due to communication limitations and lack of situation awareness. Finally, we propose solutions to guarantee driving safety.

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Gnatzig S., Chucholowski F., Tang T. and Lienkamp M. (2013). A System Design for Teleoperated Road Vehicles . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-71-6, pages 231-238. DOI: 10.5220/0004475802310238


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@conference{icinco13,
author={Sebastian Gnatzig and Frederic Chucholowski and Tito Tang and Markus Lienkamp},
title={A System Design for Teleoperated Road Vehicles},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={231-238},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004475802310238},
isbn={978-989-8565-71-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - A System Design for Teleoperated Road Vehicles
SN - 978-989-8565-71-6
AU - Gnatzig S.
AU - Chucholowski F.
AU - Tang T.
AU - Lienkamp M.
PY - 2013
SP - 231
EP - 238
DO - 10.5220/0004475802310238