[Yaaarc] Platooning Robotic Vehicles

Keith Mc. (Route-To YAR) acti at provide.net
Thu Jun 8 17:10:17 EDT 2006


We have been talking for a few years about how cool it would 
be to platoon some JeepBots for an Ypsi Heritage Fest parade, 
so I thought there might be interest in this article on platooning 
vehicles, from the current "GPS World" magazine:

GPS World wrote:
> Navigation & Guidance
> Platoon, Roll!: Robots Test Sensor Combos 
> Collaborative driving systems can increase road capacity, improve 
> safety, and reduce driver fatigue and stress. This test used 
> fixed-ambiguity carrier-phase GPS as the primary sensor, with a 
> digital camera and laser scanner to improve ambiguity resolution 
> and maintain a solution when GPS observations are unavailable.
> See:
> http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330803

-Keith Mc.


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