콜로라도주, 최초 도로유지관리 무인 작업차량 공개 VIDEO: CDOT TESTS SELF-DRIVING WORK ZONE VEHICLE: VIDEO

CDOT TESTS SELF-DRIVING WORK ZONE VEHICLE: VIDEO

Autonomous impact protection vehicle designed to get hit

via Royal Truck & Equipment

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  지난주 미 콜로라도 교통부(CDOT)는 최초로 도로 유지관리원들의 

안전을 고려해 디자인된  무인 작업차량을 공개했다.

August 21, 2017

Last week, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) unveiled a first-of-its-kind work zone vehicle designed to advance safety for roadway maintenance crews.

Crash cushion trucks are customarily positioned behind road construction crews in order to protect workers from the traveling public. Now, CDOT's Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV) increases work zone safety by removing the driver from a truck that is actually designed to be hit.

CDOT and partners Colas UK, Royal Truck & Equipment and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions showcased the AIPV in action during a live roadway striping operation in Fort Collins, Colorado. The driverless vehicle adapted military technology that uses a rear-mounted attenuator (or crash cushion) to absorb or deflect vehicles that cross into work zones.

The truck follows a human-driven vehicle equipped with GPS that wirelessly transmits its position, speed, and heading to the AIPV. With that GPS data, the AIPV computer controls the truck's steering and pedals through actuators and cables under the floor and around the steering column using algorithms that direct it to follow within plus or minus 4 inches, relative to the leader vehicle, according to Maynard Factor, director of business development at Kratos.

https://www.constructionequipment.com/cdot-tests-self-driving-work-zone-vehicle-video

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