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A cooperative personal automated transport system: A CityMobil demonstration in Rocquencourt
Author(s) -
Fawzi Nashashibi,
Paulo Resende,
François Charlot,
Carlos Holguín,
Michel Parent,
Laurent Bouraoui
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
2012 12th international conference on control automation robotics & vision (icarcv)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1109/icarcv.2012.6485233
Subject(s) - computer science , context (archaeology) , robot , perception , service (business) , human–computer interaction , intelligent transportation system , originality , order (exchange) , navigation system , simulation , transport engineering , artificial intelligence , engineering , business , paleontology , finance , marketing , neuroscience , biology , creativity , law , political science
In recent years, the research in the field of urban area delivery drew the attention of the scientific world. Many problems arise from the lack of a well-defined urban logistic, aimed at an efficient parcels distribution. Also technological issues arise; the current technology does not satisfy the needs of this specific context, in particular for what it concerns the vehicles and the transportation process. In this research we present the FURBOT vehicle result of the FURBOT (Freight Urban RoBOTic) project, funded within the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, which aim is to develop a new vehicle to improve the urban freight transport. The vehicle represents an integration between a mobile robot, a van and a forklift. The new vehicle design is presented

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