“Daughter” of the British sports car manufacturer Westfield Sportscars involved in the development of Autonomous technologies, has announced plans to create the UK’s first Autonomous electric car for cleaning the area.
To create a new car, the company that developed the technology of Autonomous control for the Shuttle POD at Heathrow airport, as well as participating in a research project funder funded by the transport research Laboratory (Transport Research Laboratory, TRL), will join forces with a manufacturer of machines for street cleaning Sweepers Johnston and involved in the development of machine vision technology firm, Fusion Processing.
Westfield CEO Julian Turner (Julian Turner) told The Engineer online that the original purpose of the project is to develop technologies that can be used for detection and removal of foreign objects and debris from runways and airports adjacent to hangars platforms, but this system can also be used to improve the efficiency of street cleaning.
Damage from damage caused by foreign objects in airports, ranging from individual elements of the fastener to the pieces of Luggage, valued in the aerospace industry about $4 billion a year, and most detection systems debris still relies heavily on humans. Turner stated that the use of Autonomous systems equipped with advanced sensor equipment, will reduce the probability of human errors and to improve the detection of foreign objects.
New robomobile cleaner will combine the technology of driverless Shuttle POD Westfield with elements of the harvesting system of the company Johnston Sweepers.
Turner hopes that the prototype robomobile cleaner will be ready by early 2018. Testing will be conducted throughout the year at several locations, including Greenwich laboratories, as well as Heathrow and Birmingham.
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