Development of an autonomous trailer

Mazdis Innovations总部位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华，为城市和人口稠密地区设计和制造创新的存储系统**产品。该公司的旗舰产品是用于室内和室外设置的安全自行车停放系统。鉴于该产品的受欢迎程度，该公司的研发工作现在集中在低占地面积的住宅存储单元上。目前，马自达正在将其新的自动化存储系统进行商业化。在开发场外自动化存储设施的同时，该公司**发现了一个大多数最终用户都遇到的主要问题，特别是在人口稠密的地区**，许多建筑物没有为居民提供足够的存储空间。因此，居民们不得不在场外租用其他存储空间。此外，汽油和环境成本让大多数人，尤其是千禧一代，更倾向于小型车，或者更多地依赖叫车服务，这些车的牵引能力很低，甚至根本没有。考虑到这一点，该公司预测传统的移动拖车最终会被淘汰。基于这一愿景，考虑到汽车行业对自动驾驶汽车概念的追捧，该公司已将研发重点放在开发一种低成本、电池供电的自动驾驶拖车上，这种拖车可以在没有物理连接的情况下跟踪（牵引）车辆。目前，在**市场上没有其他选择，这将使马自达成为市场上的领导者。设想的产品还有其他潜在的应用/市场，如房车，机场货物运输等。与**Golnaraghi博士拟议的项目是实现这一目标的第一步。

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mazdis Innovations designs and engineers innovative storage system**products for urban and densely populated areas. The company's flagship product is secure bicycle parking**system for both indoor and outdoor settings. Given the popularity of this product, the company's R&D effort is**now focussed on low-footprint residential storage units. Currently, Mazdis is in the process of commercializing**its new line of automated storage systems. While developing offsite automate storage facilities the company**has discovered a major problem that most of the end-users experience, particularly in densely populated areas**where many buildings do not provide enough storage space for residents. As a result, residents have to rent out**alternative storages offsite. Also, the cost of gas and environment is making most people, particularly the**Millennials, to lean toward smaller cars or rely more on the ride-hailing services, with minimal or no towing**capacity. With this in mind, the company predicts the conventional moving trailers to eventually become**obsolete. Based on this vision, and given the automotive industry's embracing the self-driving vehicle concept,**the company has focused its R&D efforts to develop a low-cost, battery-powered autonomous trailer that would**track and follow a (towing) vehicle without a physical link. Currently, there is no other alternative in the**market, which would place Mazdis as a leading player in the market. The envisioned product has other**potential applications/markets such as RVs, airport cargo transportation, etc. The proposed project with Dr.**Golnaraghi is the first step towards the realization of this goal.