BMW autopilot drove along the Munich-Nuremberg highway
The German company BMW has joined the ranks of those who are testing automatic car control systems without driver participation. Previously, road tests conducted by Google and Volkswagen. The only difference is that the listed companies used low-speed models for testing (for example, Google uses the Toyota Prius), but BMW equipped a 5-series sedan with a robotic control system, which is well-known to those who love to drive fast.
BMW road tests conducted on the A9 autobahn from Munich to Nuremberg. This is a road without a maximum speed limit with high traffic intensity. BMW autopilot can independently go along the route, slow down, accelerate and overtake slow road users.
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Like in the auto pilot of Volkswagen , the BMW developers used already existing designs that are installed on BMW production cars. These are BMW TrackTrainer systems (for driving along the racetrack along an ideal trajectory, it is used for training riders), an assistant when driving in traffic jams and an emergency stop assistant.
The emergency stop assistant is a system that is now being installed on BMW cars, primarily for elderly drivers (it is being created as part of the SmartSenior program, launched in May 2009 by the German Ministry of Education and Research). Its task is that if the driver loses consciousness behind the wheel, the car is able to go into an autonomous mode of movement and make an emergency stop. In this case, the system turns on the hazard warning lights, monitors the car’s maneuvers and, depending on the traffic situation, automatically stops the car in the rightmost lane.
From the technical stuffing in BMW autopilot, several sensors (lidar, radar, ultrasound and cameras) are used from all sides of the car. To predict the future trajectory of the road, a GPS system and digital maps are used, plus a road marking system camera. Objects in front of the car (as well as the rear and side) are recognized by radar sensors of the active cruise control with the Stop & Go function, as well as an additional laser scanner.
The project for the automation of the movement of the BMW Group is headed by Dr. Niko Campfen. Work has been going on for more than a year - in test mode, the autopilot has traveled more than 5,000 km.
Autopilot is activated at the touch of a button. “For the driver, this is a new and unusual situation, when driving is completely transferred to the hands of a special system. However, thanks to a very flexible, confident and reliable management, after a few minutes the driver begins to trust the car, - said Dr. Niko Campfhen. “Despite this, it is the driver who is responsible for what is happening and controls what is happening on the road.” The main goal of the developers was to ensure that the autopilot actions on the road did not differ from the actions of other road users.
Thus, BMW cars are already able to automatically park, perform an emergency stop, drive on a racetrack and on an autobahn. “The next thing that we would like to teach our prototype,” says Dr. Niko Kampfhen, is the interaction with road repair sites and intersections. Already, the question arises with the repair work, how to recognize and localize the whole variety of forms of this phenomenon and what action strategy to use, ”said the leading developer.
BMW road tests conducted on the A9 autobahn from Munich to Nuremberg. This is a road without a maximum speed limit with high traffic intensity. BMW autopilot can independently go along the route, slow down, accelerate and overtake slow road users.
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Like in the auto pilot of Volkswagen , the BMW developers used already existing designs that are installed on BMW production cars. These are BMW TrackTrainer systems (for driving along the racetrack along an ideal trajectory, it is used for training riders), an assistant when driving in traffic jams and an emergency stop assistant.
The emergency stop assistant is a system that is now being installed on BMW cars, primarily for elderly drivers (it is being created as part of the SmartSenior program, launched in May 2009 by the German Ministry of Education and Research). Its task is that if the driver loses consciousness behind the wheel, the car is able to go into an autonomous mode of movement and make an emergency stop. In this case, the system turns on the hazard warning lights, monitors the car’s maneuvers and, depending on the traffic situation, automatically stops the car in the rightmost lane.
From the technical stuffing in BMW autopilot, several sensors (lidar, radar, ultrasound and cameras) are used from all sides of the car. To predict the future trajectory of the road, a GPS system and digital maps are used, plus a road marking system camera. Objects in front of the car (as well as the rear and side) are recognized by radar sensors of the active cruise control with the Stop & Go function, as well as an additional laser scanner.
The project for the automation of the movement of the BMW Group is headed by Dr. Niko Campfen. Work has been going on for more than a year - in test mode, the autopilot has traveled more than 5,000 km.
Autopilot is activated at the touch of a button. “For the driver, this is a new and unusual situation, when driving is completely transferred to the hands of a special system. However, thanks to a very flexible, confident and reliable management, after a few minutes the driver begins to trust the car, - said Dr. Niko Campfhen. “Despite this, it is the driver who is responsible for what is happening and controls what is happening on the road.” The main goal of the developers was to ensure that the autopilot actions on the road did not differ from the actions of other road users.
Thus, BMW cars are already able to automatically park, perform an emergency stop, drive on a racetrack and on an autobahn. “The next thing that we would like to teach our prototype,” says Dr. Niko Kampfhen, is the interaction with road repair sites and intersections. Already, the question arises with the repair work, how to recognize and localize the whole variety of forms of this phenomenon and what action strategy to use, ”said the leading developer.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/129244/
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