The Cooperative Automation Research Mobility Applications (CARMA) Platform aims to improve transportation efficiency and safety with automated driving technology. AutonomouStuff’s use case combines CARMA and the Autoware system for vehicle platooning, which allows groups of vehicles to travel very closely and safely at high speed using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to control each vehicle’s movements in unison.
CARMA started in 2014 with the initial proof of concept, now known as the CARMA Platform, or, CARMA1 . In 2018, the latest version of CARMA, CARMA2, migrated to a Robot Operating System (ROS) architecture. CARMA2 was recently completed and is now available on GitHub. The next iteration, CARMA3, has been under development using agile software since August 2018 and will integrate some Autoware features into CARMA to deliver platooning for level 2-3 autonomous vehicles.
The following kit is anticipated to be available from AutonomouStuff in Q1 2020.
The CARMA platooning kit will consist of:
- CARMA Kit
- Autoware Kit
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