Connected & Autonomous Vehicles

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

CLIENT — Innovate UK (Flourish consortium)

React AI was the AI specialist in a multi-partner consortium — the three-year, £5m Flourish programme — developing technology for connected and autonomous vehicles at both vehicle and traffic-network levels.

The challenge

Advance AI for autonomous-vehicle navigation and network-level traffic prediction while managing limited physical prototype access.

Our approach

Pod trials with Connected Places Catapult, Airbus and Bristol Robotics Laboratory — collecting visual image data to train a novel neural-network route-navigation approach, with simulations and office-scale alternatives when pod access was constrained. At network level, a micro-simulation of the Bristol region (with Atkins) was integrated with React AI's cloud service to forecast traffic congestion from connected-vehicle data.

Results

Demonstrated AI across autonomous-vehicle navigation, traffic-network prediction, and the integration of connected-vehicle communications for congestion forecasting.

Technologies

• Neural networks
• Cloud services
• Aimsun
• Gazebo
• Kinect

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