5G Enabled Autonomous Fleet Mobility

自动车队移动（AFM）系统在某些室内和室外应用和服务中变得越来越重要。例如，到2030年，老年人将占加拿大人口的23%，导致卫生和长期护理机构的工作人员短缺。这将强调对自动驾驶移动系统的需求，这些系统可以执行基本任务，例如将患者/居民和设备从一个房间或建筑物移动到另一个房间或建筑物。同样，在一些城市的核心地区，公共交通正在成为唯一的交通方式，这凸显了对能够缓解财政压力和解决司机短缺问题的交通系统的需求。尽管近年来取得了重大进展，但室内和室外AFM系统仍然面临成本和安全方面的挑战。目前在AFM系统中使用昂贵的车载传感器增加了生产成本，并且不能解决繁忙和杂乱的室内/室外环境中遮挡的视野，从而引起重大的安全问题。我们针对AFM系统的解决方案是，将大部分车载感知传感器替换为使用现有5G网络进行全球车队感知的基础设施传感器节点（isn），并利用现有5G网络将车载计算设备替换为云计算。该解决方案具有显著的潜力，可以大大降低AFM系统的成本和复杂性，无论是在室内还是室外操作。虽然提出的技术将在许多应用中使用，但我们的研究重点和实施将集中在长期护理和卫生保健设施以及公共交通上。该研究项目将开发和部署世界上第一个支持5g的室外和室内移动车队系统，以解决即将到来的卫生保健工作者短缺问题，降低加拿大的卫生保健成本，开发经济的公共交通方式，并使加拿大成为该领域的领导者。它还将培训学生的自主移动系统，这将是必不可少的许多行业和服务在加拿大和世界各地。

Autonomous Fleet Mobility (AFM) systems are becoming more vital in certain indoor and outdoor applications and services. For example, by 2030, seniors will make up 23 percent of Canadians, resulting in staff shortages in health and long-term care settings. This will underline the need for self-driving mobility systems that can perform basic tasks such as moving patients/residents and equipment from one room or building to another. Similarly, public transportation is becoming the sole method of mobility in some cities' core areas, highlighting the need for mobility systems that can ease financial pressure and address driver shortages. Despite significant advancements in recent years, indoor and outdoor AFM systems still face cost and safety challenges. The current use of costly on-vehicle sensors in AFM systems increases production costs and does not address obstructed views in busy and cluttered indoor/outdoor environments, causing significant safety concerns. Our solution for the AFM system is to replace most of the on-vehicle perception sensors with infrastructure sensor nodes (ISNs) that use existing 5G networks for global fleet perception, and to replace the on-vehicle computational devices with cloud computing by leveraging existing 5G networks. This solution has significant potential to considerably reduce the cost and complexity in AFM systems, both in indoor and outdoor operations. Although the proposed technology will have uses in many applications, our research focus and implementation will be on long-term care and health care facilities and public transportation. This research program will develop and deploy the first 5G-enabled outdoor and indoor mobility fleet system in the world to address the impending shortage of health care workers, reduce health care costs in Canada, develop an economical approach to public transportation, and position Canada as a leader in this field. It will also train students in autonomous mobility systems, which will be essential in many industries and services in Canada and around the world.