Autoples' research project
Vehicle parks and refuels independently
As part of the 'Autoples' project, researchers have developed a vehicle that can drive and park itself. Thanks to an automated charging robot, it is also able to charge itself.
Researchers at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have presented their vision of the autonomous driving of the future in a project video. According to the video, the vehicles of tomorrow will not only drive and park autonomously, but will also automatically head for the nearest available charging station and recharge their battery. To this end, the scientists in the 'Autoples' project (which stands for"Automated Parkingand Chargingof Electric VehicleSystems") have converted an electric vehicle with four laser scanners and wheel sensors into an autonomous parking car.
"Thanks to their characteristics, integrated IT and electronics, electric cars converted in this way offer the best conditions for automated driving, compact parking and maneuvering without GPS and complex camera systems," explained Prof. Johann Tomforde from the Stuttgart-based company TransEnergyPartners, who is the initiator and network coordinator of 'Autoples'. Tomforde sees a lot of potential for new business models and system processes for fleet customers in the combination of digitally networked parking and charging, for example in city logistics or car sharing.
Five SMEs and institutes have joined forces in the 'Autoples' joint project. In addition to the researchers at the FZI in Karlsruhe, these include the companies CTC Cartech Company (Böblingen), IPT (Weil am Rhein), Lapp Systems (Stuttgart) and TransEnergyPartners (Stuttgart). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has funded the project with 2.3 million euros.
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