Automated valet parking and charging for e-mobility

Automated valet parking and charging for e-mobility

Automated valet parking services provide great potential to increase the attractiveness of electric vehicles by mitigating their two main current deficiencies: reduced driving ranges and prolonged refueling times. The European research project V-Charge aims at providing this service on designated pa...

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Main Authors: Schwesinger, U, Bürki, M, Timpner, J, Rottmann, S, Wolf, L, Paz, L, Grimmett, H, Posner, I, Newman, P, Häne, C, Heng, L, Lee, G, Sattler, T, Polleyfeys, M, Allodi, M, Valenti, F, Mimura, K, Goebelsmann, B, Derendarz, W, Mühlfellner, P, Wonneberger, S, Waldmann, R, Grysczyk, S, Last, C, Brüning, S, Horstmann, S, Bartholomäus, M, Brummer, C, Stellmacher, M, Pucks, F, Nicklas, M, Siegwart, R
Format: Conference item
Published: IEEE 2016
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Summary:Automated valet parking services provide great potential to increase the attractiveness of electric vehicles by mitigating their two main current deficiencies: reduced driving ranges and prolonged refueling times. The European research project V-Charge aims at providing this service on designated parking lots using close-to-market sensors only. For this purpose the project developed a prototype capable of performing fully automated navigation in mixed traffic on designated parking lots and GPS-denied parking garages with cameras and ultrasonic sensors only. This paper summarizes the work of the project, comprising advances in network communication and parking space scheduling, multi-camera calibration, semantic mapping concepts, visual localization and motion planning. The project pushed visual localization, environment perception and automated parking to centimetre precision. The developed infrastructure-based camera calibration and semi-supervised semantic mapping concepts greatly reduce maintenance efforts. Results are presented from extensive month-long field tests.

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