INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques (INTACT)

城市机动车辆或无人驾驶pod将减少道路拥堵和事故，让更多的人独立出行。然而，它们需要用户的信任——它们必须是安全的、可靠的和健壮的。这需要对自动控制系统（ACS）进行广泛的测试和验证，ACS是Pod的大脑，负责探测物体和控制车辆。在短期内，降低成本和优化acsi对于促进大规模生产和销售具有商业可行性的pod至关重要。然而，在公共道路和实际驾驶情况下进行测试将非常昂贵，不可重复，并且存在潜在危险。因此，该项目提出使用一种新颖的模拟器概念，以便在安全、可重复和科学严格的环境中对优化的ACS进行评估。RDM是英国唯一一家无人驾驶pod的设计和制造商，它将与华威大学共同努力，使pod得到更广泛的应用，帮助英国制定立法框架，最终获得自动驾驶汽车的认证，并展示英国在自动驾驶汽车研究方面的领先地位。

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.