GAS eksperimentiruesh with drones

30 August 2018

MIAS 2018 GAS showed two autopilots

At Moscow International automobile salon (MIAS), the GAZ Group in the framework of the technological festival "Mobilistic'18" showed just two of the drone on the basis of the electric buses "GAZelle NEXT". Machines differ not only in color, but mainly a technical stuffing of the systems of Autonomous control. One of the most important for our country feature is "intuitive" recognition of the boundaries of the roadway in the absence of road markings, as well as protection from cyber-attacks.      

This is not the first Gas development in the field of Autonomous movement. Now the company carries out field-tested several options of machines autopiloting distinguished as design and degree of autonomy. Unmanned Gases can perform self-service on the operator of the route at  this self-defining emerging in your way obstacles (fixed and moving).

The Central computer is able to evaluate the possible intersection of the trajectory of an unmanned vehicle and obstacles. Accordingly, the computer selects a course of action – stop the car (including the emergency brake) or avoid the obstacle.
Naturally, both machines are equipped with a positioning systems GPS/GLONASS high precision receivers, modules with differential corrections that allow you to set the location of the machine with accuracy up to 1 cm.
There is also the inertial navigation units, which allow not to lose the direction of motion at short-term interruption of the satellite signal (in tunnels, under bridges, etc.). Naturally, in the presence and recognition system of road markings, signs and other road infrastructure.
          
Differences in UAVs lies in the fact that one of them used additional localization system with a lidar (laser sensor), which allows to use the original system of recognition of the boundaries of the roadway without the presence on it of road markings, which focuses on circumstantial evidence. This unique technology – the joint development of specialists in Gas and a group of scientists of the Nizhny Novgorod state technological University. R. E. Alekseev.      

 Another drone equipped with a control system based on stereo cameras, which is a passive device collecting visual information about the surrounding machine environment. These stereo cameras have a low level of external radiation and don't cause problems in other unmanned vehicles. However, the device is securely protected from the influence of external interference and cyber attacks. The system includes several blocks of wide angle stereo pairs, which form a "depth map" around the machine, a subsystem of the circular review and the subsystem of ultrasonic sensors for long range. The optimal use of computing power of the host computer contributes to the different frequency of data processing from sensors and transducers that depends on a number of external factors: speed, noise, weather and road conditions.  

Worked on data samples advanced solutions in the framework of the "drone" projects in the future Gas will be used on subsequent unmanned vehicles, as well as in assistera drivers Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), implementation of which is expected in future production models of Gas.
  
Test of unmanned vehicles and ADAS systems are on the special part of the landfill GAS, which simulated urban environment, a car you can drive year-round. Testing in-plant transport is carried out on the route within the automobile.

Experience Gas for the development of unmanned vehicles and training for high-tech developments has been a lot of years. So, since 2008 the company participates in the Robotics program, where testing of Autonomous transport systems connected by the leading specialized universities of the country. So, today has 72 graduates have found work on the profile of engineering services Gas.
  
Going and introduction of drones in real urban environment. So, according to signed in July 2018 Gas agreement with the Government of Moscow, Federal state unitary enterprise "NAMI" and the company "Yandex" is the development and implementation of unmanned vehicles in Moscow. The agreement provides for the development of transport telematics and intelligent vehicle systems and services based on them. Planned joint work in the field of cyber security that is necessary for the future development of unmanned systems and the popularization of such vehicles for its effective operation in the urban transport environment.  
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