A Low Cost Hardware and Software Platform for Situational Awareness of Autonomous Vehicles
Lead Participant:
APTCORE LIMITED
Abstract
This project will assess the feasibility of providing a low cost hardware and software platform for provision of
collision avoidance and situational awareness capability to autonomous vehicles. The system envisaged will
comprise of a set of licensable hardware designs together with the necessary software applications and
developer configuration tools, to enable non-experts to implement and configure a system suitable for their
pod or other autonomous vehicle. This will greatly lower the barrier to entry into the autonomous vehicle
market, bringing the benefits of increased competition and lower price. This would be the first offering of its
kind, and could be considered an innovative, possibly groundbreaking product if it proves feasible. The project
will bring together some of AptCore's existing IP, function libraries and exampe applications, and build on
these, adding further capability and a user configuration tool to attempt to implement a situational awareness
system with collision avoidance suitable for a small electric vehicle e.g. a pod.
collision avoidance and situational awareness capability to autonomous vehicles. The system envisaged will
comprise of a set of licensable hardware designs together with the necessary software applications and
developer configuration tools, to enable non-experts to implement and configure a system suitable for their
pod or other autonomous vehicle. This will greatly lower the barrier to entry into the autonomous vehicle
market, bringing the benefits of increased competition and lower price. This would be the first offering of its
kind, and could be considered an innovative, possibly groundbreaking product if it proves feasible. The project
will bring together some of AptCore's existing IP, function libraries and exampe applications, and build on
these, adding further capability and a user configuration tool to attempt to implement a situational awareness
system with collision avoidance suitable for a small electric vehicle e.g. a pod.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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APTCORE LIMITED | £174,850 | £ 122,395 |
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Participant |
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INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |
Leon Wildman (Project Manager) |