Section: New Results

Description and technical specification of Cybernetic Transportation Systems: an urban transportation concept

Participants : Joshué Pérez Rastelli, Vicente Milanes Montero, David Gonzalez Bautista, Armand Yvet, Fawzi Nashashibi.

The Cybernetic Transportation Systems (CTS) is an urban transportation concept based on two ideas: the car sharing and the automation of dedicated systems with door-to-door capabilities. In the last decade, many European projects have been developed in this context, where some of the most important are: Cybercars, Cybercars II, CyberMove, CyberC3 and CityMobil, where a first fleet of vehicles were developed by different companies and research centers around Europe, Asia and America. Considering these previous works, the FP7 project Citymobil II is in progress since 2012. Its goal is to solve some of the limitations found so far, including the definition of the legal framework for autonomous vehicles on urban environment. Much of the perception and control software has been improved in the Inria’s Cybus. New guidance functionalities were developed, mainly with the introduction of stereovision-based SLAM, and Bezier curve in path planning generation. In this work, automated CTSs involved are used in the different showcases in European cities. This work presents the different improvements, adaptation and instrumentation of the vehicle used. Results show tests in our facilities at Inria-Rocquencourt (France) and the first showcase at León (Spain).