Mitsubishi Electric Field Testing xAUTO Autonomous-Driving Test Vehicle
2017年10月17日 - 1:10PM
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Autonomous driving offering high safety and
convenience
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today
that it has been conducting expressway-based field testing of its
xAUTO vehicle and related autonomous-driving technologies for
self-sensing and network-based driving, since May 2016. The xAUTO
will be exhibited during 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 at the Tokyo
Big Sight exhibition complex in Tokyo, Japan from October 27 to
November 5.
Mitsubishi Electric named its autonomous driving technologies,
Diamond Safety, which have been developed under the concept of
"Thinking of people at any time". Mitsubishi Electric’s
self-sensing driving technology combines various peripheral-sensing
technologies, including a forward-monitoring millimeter-wave radar
with wide viewing angle, a forward-monitoring camera and a backward
side-monitoring millimeter-wave radar. Its infrastructural driving
technology uses high-accuracy 3D mapping in combination with a
centimeter-level augmentation service (CLAS) broadcast from the
Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS). Together, Mitsubishi
Electric’s self-sensing and network-based driving technologies
enable autonomous driving with high levels of safety and
convenience.
Overview of Field Tests
1) Autonomous driving tests on expressway
Field tests of the xAUTO and its autonomous driving technologies
were carried out on two Japanese expressways — the Sanyo Expressway
(Kobe junction to Ako interchange) and the Douo Expressway
(Shibetsu Kenbuchi interchange to Fukagawa interchange) for more
than 300 hours*. The tests confirmed that Mitsubishi Electric’s
autonomous driving technologies operate practically under various
road conditions, including bad visibility during dense fog and
snow.
* Using simulated signals because CLAS from the Quasi-Zenith
Satellite System were not yet available.
2) Utilization of CLAS from Quasi-Zenith Satellite
System
In the world’s first field test of CLAS-based autonomous driving
on expressway, which took place on September 19, it was confirmed
that this technology has advanced to the practical level. In
tunnels and other locations where CLAS reception is difficult,
autonomous driving was achieved with high-definition location
technology to determine the vehicle’s exact position in real time
combined with various sensors that monitored the vehicle’s motion,
and a forward-monitoring camera.
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