The TerraMax uses oshkosh's Medium Tactical Replacement Vehicle. This was designed specifically as a vehicle for the US Marine Corps. This vehicle is entered every year in the grand challenge autonomous vehicle competition and finishes very well every year. Oshkosh have implemented their command zone drive-by-wire technology which allows computers to control the steering, accelerator, brakes and transmission.
The design uses high level software development and multiple cameras to allow the vehicle to 'see' and judge road conditions and obstacles for itself. The main onboard computer is used to directly electronically control the accelerator, brakes and transmission depoending on what the cameras percieve.
This technology has fantastic promise in the military as it could allow supply convoys to be unmanned, keeping soldiers out of harms way of roadside bombs and ambushes.
The kit included on the vehicle:
- Vision system with cameras
- LIDAR system
- GPS/IMU navigation system
- Oshkosh Truck Corporation Command Zone® computer controlled, multiplexed electronics system that operates and diagnoses all by-wire vehicle systems
- Navigation computers located under the passenger seat handle the sensor fusion, world map management, real-time path planning and high-level control
- CAN-controlled brakes, steering, engine and transmission
Above information sourced from http://www.terramax.com/technology/the_brawn.cfm & http://www.terramax.com/technology/the_brains.cfm
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