Scania while chasing unmanned convoys on the runway

Scania is experiencing avtopilotiruemy convoy on the runway

Recently in the field of drone technology for commercial vehicles the most promising recognized Platooning – the movement of trucks in autopilothow the column behind the leader, managed driver. A similar system at Scania that use wireless communication to control the truck, whereby the machine safely and effectively follow the leader at a minimum distance from each other without the help of a man called Slipstream. The benefit here is in addition to reducing manpower requirements, including possibilities for columns to reduce the space occupied on the road, thereby increasing traffic throughput. The real tests are carried out in four Autonomous Scania trucks on the runway, near Stockholm. During the test, trucks moved by convoy forming convoy. Leading car controls the driver. In the slave cabins of the trucks drivers were also present, but only as insurance operators, as the Slipstream system is fully operated vehicles.

Head of development of automated systems Gunnar Cornmill demonstrated the reliability of the system Scania personally sat behind the wheel of the offending car. In his car he "wedged" in the column, and the drones automatically increased the distance between themselves to a safe. When the "intruder" left the convoy, the trucks again automatically reduces the distance. If the brakes system works quickly and accurately. Once received the brake signal from the lead truck, other cars in the convoy reacted instantly.

The tests showed the efficiency of the technology. The system not only creates the possibility of four trucks to move without deviation in one stand-alone column, but also able to cope with the actual unexpected obstacles. Each of these tests brings technology avtopilotiruemyh columns to a mass withdrawal on public roads.

"I hope that the first full scale tests will begin in three years and will be held on public roads", – said Gunnar Cornball. We believe that the transport of the future will represent a set of solutions, where avtopilotiruemy column may be one of the most powerful tools for effective optimization of transport logistics.

Today Scania is one of the leading research in the field of Autonomous vehicle and the eve of breakthroughs in the development of systems for Platoonung-and.