DSTU engineers are working on the creation of a universal modular system, which will allow turning serial vehicles into drones corresponding to the 4th level of autonomy. To test selected educational Lada Granta with duplicate instructor pedals.
The team, made up of 80 per cent university students, designed, manufactured and tested a special control unit for electric power steering, a mechatronic unit for changing the position of the “mechanical” selector switch, electric and pneumatic actuators for work with pedals.
Currently the prototype is at the 2nd or 3rd level of autonomy. While the supervision of a specialist is required. Machine systems do not receive information that is not piloted by a person. The impact on controls is completely identical.
First field trials of a robot Lada Granta took place at the training ground of the Gorky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod. In the near future, the developers plan to sign a cooperation agreement with AvtoVAZ.
