Field Auto Co., Ltd., a venture from Saitama Institute of Technology, participated in the nation's first demonstration experiment to run two remotely controlled autonomous vehicles at the same time at Toyohashi Comprehensive Animal and Botanical Park in Aichi Prefecture.
Field Auto is a venture related to autonomous driving.Established on June 2018, 6 with the investment of Tier IV, Inc., it will promote research and development of autonomous driving technology for the first time in a domestic private university through industry-academia collaboration.So far, as a research project for automatic driving at Saitama Institute of Technology, we have been working on SIP * and public road experiments in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture.
This demonstration experiment is sponsored by Aichi Prefecture, which is working on cutting-edge demonstration experiments with an eye on the social implementation of autonomous driving, and is a demonstration of remote autonomous driving to verify the possibility of introducing it as a park bus in Toyohashi Comprehensive Animal and Botanical Park. Was carried out.Field Auto, in collaboration with Tier IV, was in charge of assisting the operation of self-driving vehicles.
In the demonstration experiment, two unmanned vehicles were remotely monitored and remotely controlled at the same time in the driver's seat installed at the remote monitoring and operation base outside the vehicle.The steering wheel, accelerator, and brake of the vehicle during remote monitoring are automatically controlled, and the vehicle automatically drives from the starting point to the destination.This is the first experiment in Japan to run multiple vehicles without a driver in the driver's seat by remote monitoring.I ran 2 km in the park at 1.5 km / h.
* SIP is a national project carried out by the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Cabinet Office, which goes beyond the boundaries of ministries and traditional fields to create science and technology innovation.
