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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

IVS Facilities

Cooperative Systems

Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE)

IntelliDrive^SM Technology

Autonomous/Automated Systems

Mobile Robotics Engineering

Active Vehicle Safety and Autonomy (AVSA) Consortium (www.avsa.swri.org)

Mobile Autonomous Robotics Technology Initiative (MARTI™)

Publications

	The technical breadth of SwRI allows the assembly of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with extensive capabilities and experience working in fields related to vehicular autonomy.

Sensor/computing/mobile technologies are currently being investigated and developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in an effort to augment vehicle platforms and provide autonomous vehicle and active safety capabilities. The platforms support a variety of missions and applications. SwRI envisions the fully automated highway and the fully automated vehicle as the future of ground-based transportation systems and cooperating Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) as the future of combat operations.

Examples of SwRI's activities in this area include:

• Mobile Autonomous Robotics Technology Initiative (MARTI™) - formerly the Southwest Safe Transport Initiative (SSTI)

• Active Vehicle Safety and Autonomy (AVSA) Consortium

• SwRI's demonstration of autonomous vehicle on the streets of New York City—View in (QuickTime) or (Windows)

• SwRI's demonstration of vehicle platoon in Washington D.C.

• SwRI's demonstration of UGV support of convoy operations at the U.S. Army-sponsored Robotics Rodeo at Fort Hood, Texas

Autonomous/Automated Vehicle Enabling Technologies

The technical breadth of SwRI allows the assembly of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with extensive capabilities and experience working in fields related to vehicular autonomy. This team applies its respective domain knowledge to include the current state of the art in:

• Perception

• Intelligence

• Command and control

• Communications

• Platforms

• Safety

This knowledge has enabled the selection of cutting edge hardware and software components and a sound research plan to develop an advanced fully autonomous ground vehicle.

SwRI Strengths

SwRI is equipped with advanced knowledge in the following related fields:

• Machine vision and image processing

• Advanced control systems design

• Vehicle dynamics modeling and simulation

• Software engineering and development

• Communication systems engineering

• Systems integration and rapid prototyping

• Independent test and evaluation

• Cooperative systems

• Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE)

For more information about intelligent vehicle systems facilities and capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Ryan D. Lamm at rlamm@swri.org or +1 (210) 522-5350.

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Southwest Research Institute^® (SwRI^®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 12 technical divisions.

November 02, 2009