Development case study of first Estonian Self-driving car ISEAUTO

Rapid development of intelligent control technics has brought also changes in automotive industry and led to development of autonomous or self-driving vehicles. To overcome traffic and environment issues self-driving cars use a number of sensors for vision and navigation system, actuators to control mechanical systems and computers to process the data. All these points make a self-driving car an interdisciplinary project that requires contribution form the different fields. In our particular case four different university departments and two companies are directly involved into self-driving car project. The main aim of the paper is to discuss the challenges faced in development of first Estonian self-driving car. The project realization time was 20 months for four work packages: preliminary study, software development, body assembly and systems tuning/testing of the self-driving car. This paper describes a development process stages and tasks that were spread between sub-teams. Moreover, a paper present technical and software solution that were used to achieve the goal and present a self-driving last mile bus called ISEAUTO. Special attention is putted on discussion of safety challenges that self-driving electrical car project can meet. Main outcomes and future research possibilities are outlined