ATLAS – Establishing the mapping requirements for fully autonomous navigation

Abstract

developments in fully autonomous vehicles move forward, one issue to be considered is the mapping
 requirements necessary for such vehicles to navigate their way around the road network at any time and between
 any point of origin and destination. On-board navigation systems already deal with determining the initial route,
 so that the challenge becomes that of being able to determine the vehicle position at all times, especially in
 circumstances where GNSS is unavailable. The ATLAS project (supported by Innovate UK) has considered this
 issue with regards to mapping types, data requirements and technology demands/protocols. Through the
 development of a cloud-based data service concept, and simulation of the data transmission conditions in
 different scenarios, ATLAS has demonstrated that achieving fully autonomous navigation will be challenging
 with current communications technology. However, V2I technologies could help to achieve autonomous
 navigation in the short term as well as delivering additional operational benefits to road owners.

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DOIS: 10.5281/zenodo.1456826 10.5281/zenodo.1456827