Not exact matches
Testing in inclement weather is considered the Achilles heel of
autonomous vehicles because their sensors can't see the road and must
rely on highly detailed 3D maps.
Lead researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, Dr Biagio Forte, said: «With increasing dependency upon GNSS with the planned introduction of 5G networks and
autonomous vehicles which
rely heavily
on GNSS, the need for accurate and reliable satellite navigation systems everywhere in the world has never been more critical.
Remotely operated subs have met with both success and failure in stanching the flow of crude, and the oil industry may need to
rely on completely
autonomous vehicles
Current trends in
autonomous vehicle navigation systems therefore
rely not only
on GPS / INS, but a suite of other sensor - based technologies such as cameras, lasers, and sonar.
Professor Milford said
autonomous vehicles operating in underground mines
relied on expensive sensing or infrastructure modifications.
And looking to the future,
autonomous and connected
vehicles will increasingly
rely on lightweight, high - strength plastics and composites.
See, instead of
relying on cameras to detect the car's position, Ford's Fusion Hybrid
autonomous research
vehicles use the combination of high - resolution 3D maps, LiDAR, and radar to determine exactly where it is at.
These problems are often very rich in detail — examples include power station management and control of
autonomous vehicles underwater or space — and
rely on the optimisations that planning systems make (which I will discuss another time) as well as time.
It's easy to see that modern ocean exploration has shifted from
relying on brave explorers like Jacques Cousteau to
autonomous underwater
vehicles that can go where no man can.
While we've seen drivers killed in Teslas used in autopilot mode, those
vehicles aren't fully
autonomous and are supposed to
rely on drivers being alert at the wheel.