Automatic Control of a Large Articulated Vehicle

This work presents the development of the automatic control of an articulated bus. It is describes the most relevant concepts of the architecture of perception and actuation implemented on a large wheeled vehicle, Volvo B10M articulated bus of 18.75m in length. In this work, some experimental results of strategies for lateral and longitudinal control of the bus are shown, when it travels on a guide rail through a guiding mechatronics box. Additionally, this article presents the concepts of the guiding rail detection and obstacle detection by means of two Lidar systems for the test lane detection in advance, and for the pedestrians’ safety, respectively. Several experimental results are presented in this manuscript.