First Integration Week

March 15, 2013 in Meeting, News by admin

On April 16-20, 2012 the V-Charge first Integration Week took place. The main tasks of the week was the integration of systems so far developed, the acquisition of new sensor data, and preliminary system testing.

These activities were performed on two test vehicles dubbed KERMIT and GROBI.

The V-Charge team and the two experimental vehicles.

Wednesday 18

On April 18the the activities were mainly focused on data acquisition.  Different scenarios were used for data acquisition with other vehicles or pedestrians. Sequences were taken in controlled environment (VW parking facility) and  in the Wolfsburg urban scenario up to nearly 600 Gbytes including cameras, GPS and other sensors.

Closeups of some cameras on the GROBI vehicle.

Thursday 19

The acquired sequences have been preliminary inspected in order to evaluate if they fit suitable scenario cases. VW staff demonstrated the x-by-wire system using a joystick and the e-stop safety capabilities.

Path Planning Demo.

 

Friday 20

On the last day, besides the technical committee meeting, a preliminary test for automatic driving was performed using trajectory following and the path planner.