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Drive-By-Wire Development Process Based on ROS for an Autonomous Electric Vehicle
J Felipe Arango1, Luis M Bergasa1, Pedro A Revenga1
1Electronics Department, University of Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Abstract:
This paper presents the development process of a robust and ROS-based Drive-By-Wire system designed for an autonomous electric vehicle from scratch over an open source chassis. A revision of the vehicle characteristics and the different modules of our navigation architecture is carried out to put in context our Drive-by-Wire system. The system is composed of a Steer-By-Wire module and a Throttle-By-Wire module that allow driving the vehicle by using some commands of lineal speed and curvature, which are sent through a local network from the control unit of the vehicle. Additionally, a Manual/Automatic switching system has been implemented, which allows the driver to activate the autonomous driving and safely taking control of the vehicle at any time. Finally, some validation tests were performed for our Drive-By-Wire system, as a part of our whole autonomous navigation architecture, showing the good working of our proposal. The results prove that the Drive-By-Wire system has the behaviour and necessary requirements to automate an electric vehicle. In addition, after 812 h of testing, it was proven that it is a robust Drive-By-Wire system, with high reliability. The developed system is the basis for the validation and implementation of new autonomous navigation techniques developed within the group in a real vehicle.
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