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Light vehicles (LV) include passenger cars, whereas heavy vehicles (HV) include trucks and buses. Driverless operation means operating vehicles without a human safety driver, that is Level 4 or 5.
A self-driving car, also known as a autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, [1] [2] [3] is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Self-driving cars are responsible for all driving activities, such as perceiving the environment, monitoring important systems, and controlling ...
The name is an abbreviation of Universal Wheel Drive System. [2] The Uni Wheel is intended to gain the advantages of individual wheel drive without having to mount the motor directly to, or inside, the wheel. Instead, it subsumes the functions of constant-velocity joints, drive shaft and reduction gearing into a single system within the wheel. [1]
Google's development of self-driving technology began in January 17, 2009, [4] [non-primary source needed] at Google X lab, run by co-founder Sergey Brin. [3] The project was launched at Google by Sebastian Thrun, the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and Anthony Levandowski, founder of 510 Systems and Anthony's Robots.
A hand-power monowheel was patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemming [2] with a pedal-power unit patented in 1885. [3] Various motorized monowheels were developed and demonstrated during the 1930s without commercial success [4] and Charles F Taylor was granted a patent for a "vehicle having a single supporting and driving wheel" in 1964 after some 25 years of experimentation. [5]
A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016. [2] [3] In 2016, he co-founded and sold Otto, an autonomous trucking company, to Uber Technologies.
Omni wheels or poly wheels, similar to Mecanum wheels, are wheels with small discs (called rollers) around the circumference which are perpendicular to the turning direction. The effect is that the wheel can be driven with full force, but will also slide laterally with great ease. These wheels are often employed in holonomic drive systems.