BMBF Project Puts Automated Electric Vehicle on the Road
March 23, 2018 | Technical University of MunichEstimated reading time: 1 minute
The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project UNICARagil aims to rethink vehicles and their development processes. The goal is a disruptive, modular and agile vehicle architecture and the prototypical implementation of four different application cases from automated family taxis to mobile package delivery stations.
Autonomous electric vehicles will be an essential component of future mobility: they will form the basis for sustainable and intelligent road transport, novel mobility and transportation concepts, improvements in traffic safety and a boost in the quality of life in urban environments.
However, requisite vehicle concepts require a significantly more centralized and efficient data processing and transmission in motor vehicles and, consequently, a departure from established architectures and processes.
The UNICARagil project builds on the latest results of research into electromobility, as well as automated and connected driving to develop autonomous electric vehicles for myriad future application scenarios. The project utilizes methodologies common in the IT industry with its fast development cycles and updating mechanisms.
This approach bases on a modular and scalable vehicle design, comprising payload and drive units that can be flexibly adapted to a variety of applications in logistics and passenger transport. A further focus lies on the development of a readily extensible and updatable software and hardware architecture.
Autonomous and Remote-Controlled Driving
The project includes the development of a control room by the Chair of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The control room represents the security and control center of UNICARagil. It can assume control of a vehicle when conditions are not suitable for driving autonomously, thereby expanding the range of autonomous driving applications.
The Chair of Ergonomics and the Chair of Automotive Technology of the TUM are collaborating in the development of the AUTOtaxi concept. In addition to regular public transport, passengers will be able to use the AUTOtaxi for personal rides in urban areas.
The vehicles can be booked, ordered or opened and used where they are parked using a smartphone. The test arena for the AUTOtaxi prototype and its interaction with the control room is located on the TUM campus in Garching and vicinity.
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