INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques (INTACT)

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Urban mobility vehicles, or driverless Pods, will reduce congestion and accidents on our roads and give morepeople travel independence. However, they require trust from users – they must be safe, secure and robust.This requires extensive testing and validation of the Autonomous Control System, or ACS, which is the brains ofthe Pod responsible for detecting objects and controlling the vehicle. Reducing the cost and optimising this ACSis essential in facilitating the large scale manufacture and sale of commercially viable Pods in the near term.However testing on public roads and in real-world driving situations would be very expensive, unrepeatableand potentially dangerous. Hence this project proposes the use of a novel simulator concept, to enable theevaluation of an optimised ACS in a safe, repeatable and scientifically rigorous environment. RDM, the UK’sonly designer and manufacturer of driverless Pods, and University of Warwick will work together to enable thebroader uptake of Pods, help inform the legislative framework for the UK and eventual certification ofautonomous vehicles, and show the UK as a leader of research into autonomous vehicles.