control assistants to 5 full driverless automa tion It replaces mechanical actuators in steering throttle and braking systems by electrical impuls es that are executed by servo motors The Space Drive system of Schaeffl er s joint venture Schaeff ler Paravan sets the benchmark Space Drive has been used for years in vehicles for people with dis abilities and thus has covered more than a billion kilometers in real world road traffi c The technolo gy which is completely fail safe due to three mutu ally monitoring control chips is already installed in passenger cars vans and farming technology Even in motorsport Space Drive is proving its vi ability in an Audi R8 race car modifi ed by Paravan Moreover Space Drive is adaptable to a variety of use cases in automotive construction machinery municipal and special purpose vehicle engineer ing In interaction with onboard radar lidar or ultra sonic sensor systems and a matching control unit Space Drive is able to accelerate brake and steer vehicles through traffi c in fully autonomous mode Schaeffl er provides Space Drive with a brain that can be adapted with equal fl exibility the XTRONIC Control Unit from Schaeffl er s subsidiary XTRONIC GmbH The control unit s USP is that it combines safety monitoring control and comfort functions in a single system which makes it suitable for ver satile uses across diff erent platforms New technologies create freedom Even at this juncture autonomous equipment has become fi rmly established in the routine process es of many industrial sectors It enhances safety and productivity and provide us with opportu nities to do the things that humans are better at than machines The author Journalist and techie Carsten Paulun started experimenting with remote controlled ships and cars in his childhood days At the moment he s having fun with his drone that s able to autonomously avoid collisions with obstacles desired portfolio as suitcase sized micro vehi cles or drones driverless pizza bakeries or ice cream trucks A lot of things are possible some of them still in development pipelines and others al ready on the road in pilot projects Nevertheless in this area the complexity of everyday traffi c situ ations especially in city centers still exceeds the capabilities of robo vehicles as well not to men tion legal obstacles Also conceivable are cobot solutions in other words a delivery person and a robotic vehicle working together For instance the delivery person and an autonomous vehicle might link up close to the area where the deliveries are to be made after the van has been loaded at the par cel center Another idea is for minivans to follow the delivery man or woman in pedestrian zones at walking speed These are exciting prospects and it remains to be seen what technology will meet us at our doorstep when the postman rings Billed as smart farming the agricultural sector has been seeing major technological upgrades as well In fact the oldest economic sector on Earth is a technology trailblazer Some 25 percent of all ser vice robots worldwide are used in farming accord ing to a report by the International Federation of Robotics As early as in 2015 one third of the value added in the agricultural machinery sector world wide was generated with software electronics and sensor systems accounting for a three times high er share than in the automotive industry Autono mously operated harvesters are already a reality in farming today The machine independently pro cesses information and makes at least partially au tonomous decisions while the farmer s role is large a monitoring one On large fi elds the interaction of autonomous harvesters can already be admired Driverless combines hand over the harvested crop to trailers they have called to the site themselves and which are then pulled by driverless tractors A driver only sits in a truck at the edge of the fi eld Like the parcel delivery sector farming relies on small robotic vehicles whether for sowing or weed killing The light weights have the advantage of causing clearly lower soil compaction than conven tional heavy duty machines Autonomous through drive by wire So called drive by wire technology is essential for all autonomous vehicles of levels 2 partially au tomated for instance by lane keeping and speed 61 Here and now

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