Section: New Results

New urban transportation platforms: Inria's Cybus

Participants : François Charlot, Joshué Pérez Rastelli, Fawzi Nashashibi, Paulo Lopes Resende, Michel Parent, Armand Yvet.

Figure 3. The Cybus operated at La Rochelle City during 3 months as a free transport service.

Cybus is the best known prototyping and demonstration platform designed at Inria. Apart from the chassis and engines, the whole hardware and software systems were developed thanks to IMARA’s researchers and engineers talents. These electric vehicles are based on a Yamaha chassis but the embedded intelligence is the result of two years of development.

Much of the perception and control software has been improved. New guidance functionalities were developed this year, mainly with the introduction of stereovision-based SLAM, and Bezier curve in path planning generation. The platforms developed here (Cybus) will be demonstrated in the context of the EU CityMobil-2 project. This time real operational mobility services demonstrations will be extended to 6-12 months in selected European cities! Other showcases are expected to take place in Asian cities in 2014.