WATonoBus - All Weather Waterloo Autonomous Shuttle Bus: A Testbed for Automated Divining and V2X Connectivity

WATonoBus - 全天候滑铁卢自主班车：自动占卜和 V2X 连接的测试平台

• 批准号: RTI-2021-00058
• 负责人: Khajepour, Amir
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=718778
• 关键词: WATonoBus; Weather; Waterloo; Autonomous; Shuttle

In 2019, the Waterloo Mechatronic Vehicle Systems (MVS) Lab initiated the WATonoBus (https://uwaterloo.ca/watonobus/), Canada's first all-weather autonomous shuttle bus to safely drive autonomously in any weather condition on the UW's 2.7km Ring Road. WATonoBus is equipped with different sensors for perception and automated driving and, currently, four more shuttle buses are being instrumented to establish a fleet of five autonomous buses, a world-class testbed for autonomous urban driving research in Canada. Waterloo's Ring Road circles the UW campus, connecting our main buildings, parking lots, and bus and train stations. It has several intersections and crowded parts with pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles representing a unique test environment for research on autonomous driving in urban city environments. In this application, we request funding to equip one kilometer of Ring Road with stand-alone infrastructure sensor nodes to advance higher vehicle autonomy (Level 4 and 5) in complex urban driving. The addition of these sensor nodes to our WATonoBus fleet will establish the largest connected autonomous shuttle bus research test platform in any university in the world. Each of the infrastructure sensor nodes proposed in this RTI application will include a Lidar, camera, edge computing unit, 5G communication module, and a solar-based power unit. The sensor units will be mounted to the existing light posts on the Ring Road to provide the information needed for the automated driving of the shuttle buses. This has become possible through the recent Rogers Communications and the University of Waterloo partnership to create a 5G wireless network-enabled smart campus. The addition of these sensor nodes to the Ring Road and their integration into the WATonoBus fleet will enable urgently needed breakthroughs in reliable cooperative navigation through V2X connectivity (vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, vehicle to cloud, etc.), advance level 4 and 5 autonomous driving, and cloud-based operation of autonomous fleet through 5G network. All are crucial to realizing automated driving in city cores and high vehicle autonomy, and the competitiveness of Canada's automotive industry.

2019年，滑铁卢机电车辆系统（MVS）实验室启动了WATonoBus（https：//uwaterloo.ca/watonobus/），这是加拿大第一辆全天候自动穿梭巴士，可以在任何天气条件下在华盛顿大学2.7公里的环路上安全地自动驾驶。WATonoBus配备了用于感知和自动驾驶的不同传感器，目前正在对另外四辆穿梭巴士进行测试，以建立一支由五辆自动驾驶巴士组成的车队，这是加拿大自动驾驶城市驾驶研究的世界级测试平台。 滑铁卢环路环绕着华盛顿大学校园，连接着我们的主要建筑，停车场，公共汽车站和火车站。它有几个十字路口和拥挤的部分，行人，骑自行车的人和车辆代表了在城市环境中研究自动驾驶的独特测试环境。 在此应用中，我们申请资金为一公里长的环路配备独立的基础设施传感器节点，以在复杂的城市驾驶中提高车辆自主性（4级和5级）。将这些传感器节点添加到我们的WATonoBus车队中将建立世界上任何大学中最大的互联自动穿梭巴士研究测试平台。 RTI应用中提出的每个基础设施传感器节点将包括激光雷达、摄像头、边缘计算单元、5G通信模块和太阳能电源单元。传感器将安装在环路上现有的灯柱上，为穿梭巴士的自动驾驶提供所需的信息。通过最近罗杰斯通信和滑铁卢大学的合作伙伴关系，创建一个支持5G无线网络的智能校园，这已经成为可能。 将这些传感器节点添加到Ring Road并集成到WATonoBus车队中，将通过V2X连接（车辆到车辆，车辆到基础设施，车辆到云等）实现可靠合作导航方面急需的突破，推进4级和5级自动驾驶，并通过5G网络实现基于云的自动驾驶车队运营。所有这些对于在城市核心实现自动驾驶和高度车辆自主性以及加拿大汽车行业的竞争力至关重要。