
VIAC - VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge - is a unique journey from Italy to China; for the first time in history 4 vehicles equipped with VisLab autonomous driving technology will travel for 13,000 km with a solar energy powered auto-pilot.
The convoy is led by a "leader vehicle" in which operators take control every time a decision on the road has to be taken. It is manned all the time, although it runs autonomously most of the time. It is used to test innovative systems and conduct experiments. The leader also broadcasts its GPS position via radio.
The second vehicle, i.e. "the follower", receives the leader’s GPS position; this vehicle follows the leader’s route defined by very rough GPS waypoints and refines its trajectory via local sensing.
The VIAC event has been conceived to be a thorough test of many different driving assistance systems and many autonomous driving systems that VisLab has been developing in the last 15+ years.
The VIAC application for iPhone/iPod Touch tracks all the movements of the vehicles so you can follow their voyage in details.
Features:
- Live streaming events, so you can see, whenever you want, where the vehicles are headed
- Live GPS tracking, so you can check and follow the position of the vehicles on the World map
- Daily news on the project and achievements
- Exclusive content such as photos and videos
VIAC is available for free on the App Store