Demonstration of Cooperative Connected Automated Vehicles (CCAV) based on ROS2
Initial stages will be done in simulation. Plan is to migrate the system to 1/10 automated vehicles and then to full sized-vehicles. The system shall show vehicles forming and leaving platoons driving bumper-to-bumper. Vehicles will be equiped with a mechanism that lets them physically connect.
The ultimate objective is described in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356194082_Improved_Bus_Service_on_Ten_Times_Less_Energy
Animations of the concept are the smart connecting car video on: https://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/en/research/robot-systems/eo-smart-connecting-1 and Inroducing the Millipod on https://micro-av.com/ or https://youtu.be/GhZn2PnOp8E