Sunday, December 20, 2009

"Erwoodbot" Robot car to read the road

Enable a group of researchers at the University of Malaga of the Spanish innovation "Car Robots" will help reduce costs and time to carry out the work of paving and road development, which usually cause inconvenience to raise citizens, and require high costs for companies that are being implemented.

The project named "Erwoodbot" and held commissioned by the Construction Company "Sakair", and aims to resolve difficulties that were posed by a scientific three-dimensional map of the road, a crucial step in paving operations, development and road construction.

For the specific characteristics of the road at the moment is to use manual methods, you can extract data for a distance of 100 m / h, but with a "robot" developed by the new teachers and researchers in the Department of Systems Engineering and machinery at the university, information may be collected at a distance of four kilometers / hour, What reduces the time it takes for this process about 50 times.

And similar to the "Erwoodbot" electric car that is used in golf courses, were provided with perimeter sensor, laser, and is directed and to locate him through the positioning system "GPS", and through information obtained can configure the three-dimensional image of the road to be created with high accuracy .

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