An unmanned electric truck based on the "Gazelle" has been created at the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI". This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
To collect information about road traffic, the car is equipped with a complex of various sensors: lidars (laser locators) allow obtaining information about the distance between the drone and other objects at any time of the day; video cameras collect visual data, an inertial navigation system helps the truck move along a given trajectory, GPS is used to track movement via satellite.
Data from sensors is analyzed and filtered by software. Actions of the unmanned truck are built on their basis.
Our development was successfully tested in autonomous mode on public roads as part of unmanned vehicle competitions in the territory of the Alabuga special economic zone in the Republic of Tatarstan. However, the functionality that we put into our truck allows us to solve much more tasks than just moving along highways.
The developers also plan to use the car for transporting goods on the territory of industrial enterprises.
Earlier www1.ru reported that an unmanned truck was developed in St. Petersburg.
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