Towards Autonomous Vehicles for Future Intelligent Transportation Systems

Developing new Intelligent Transportation Systems which take into consideration the socio-economical, environmental, and safety factors of the modern society, is one of the grand challenges of the next century. Recent progress in the fields of Mobile Robots, Control Architectures, and Computer Vision allows us to now envisage the integration of new autonomous and driving-assistance capabilities within future vehicles. This paper presents the concept of "Automated Urban Vehicle" which is currently developed within the scope of the French "Praxit`ele" and "Automated Road" programmes. It focuses onto the novel Control and Decisional Architecture which has been developed for providing each vehicule with the required autonomous capabilities. Experimental results obtained with our automatic electric vehicles are presented for three types of manoeuvres: lane following/changing, parallel parking, and platooning. 1 Introduction Developing new Intelligent Transportation Systems which take into..