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，滑铁园机电车辆系统（MVS）实验室启动了Watonobus（https://uwaterloo.ca/watonobus/），加拿大第一辆全威瑟自动班车巴士是在UW 2.7公里环路上的任何天气条件下安全地自动驾驶的。 Watonobus配备了不同的感知和自动驾驶的传感器，目前，正在启动另外四辆班车，以建立五辆自动驾驶汽车的机队，这是一个世界一流的测试床，用于加拿大的自主城市驾驶研究。 滑铁卢的环路将UW校园圈出，连接我们的主要建筑物，停车场以及公共汽车和火车站。它有几个交叉路口和拥挤的零件，这些零件与行人，骑自行车的人和车辆，代表着城市城市环境中自动驾驶的独特测试环境。 在此应用程序中，我们要求资金为一公里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更高的车辆自主权（4级和5级）。这些传感器节点在我们的Watonobus车队中添加将建立世界上任何大学的最大连接的自动驾驶汽车研究测试平台。 此RTI应用程序中提出的每个基础架构传感器节点都将包括LIDAR，相机，边缘计算单元，5G通信模块和基于太阳能的动力单元。传感器单元将安装到环路上的现有灯柱上，以提供自动驾驶班车所需的信息。通过最近的Rogers Communications和滑铁卢大学的合作伙伴关系，建立了一个具有5G无线网络的Smart Campus，这已成为可能。 这些传感器节点在环道中添加及其在Watonobus舰队中的集成将使通过V2X连接（车辆驶向汽车，通往基础设施的车辆，通往云的车辆等）的可靠合作导航，迫切需要突破，预先4和5级自动驾驶和5级自主驱动器以及自动驾驶的基于5G网络的云基于5G网络的云操作。所有这些对于实现城市核心和高级汽车自治的自动驾驶以及加拿大汽车行业的竞争力至关重要。