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Section: Software
Development work: Cycab
Participants : Fabien Spindler [correspondant] , Andrea Cherubini.
The Cycab is a four wheel drive autonomous electric car dedicated to vision-based autonomous navigation (see Fig. 4 ). A pan-tilt head (Biclops PTM) equipped with a firewire Marlin camera with about 70 degrees field of view is mounted on the front bumper, as well as a Sick LDMRS laser rangefinder. Concerning the computer units, the Cycab is equipped with two microprocessors dedicated to the low level control of the vehicle actuators and a laptop dedicated to high level visual navigation. They are connected through an internal CAN bus. The camera, the pan-tilt head and the laser rangefinder are connected to the laptop. The research and experiments conducted with the Cycab are described in Section 6.2.3 . Note that 4 papers published by Lagadic in 2011 enclose experimental results obtained with the Cycab.
