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Multimillion-pound project to tackle autonomous fleet operation

Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) spin-out Immense Simulations and Improbable have been successful in their application to the Innovate UK Connected and Autonomous Vehicles call for a Collaborative Research and Development project, to create a new solution for the coordination of autonomous vehicle fleets. Immense Simulations will develop ‘tools for autonomous logistics operations and management’, building on its SpatialOS distributed simulation platform, a new operating system that enables developers to
February 15, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) spin-out Immense Simulations and Improbable have been successful in their application to the Innovate UK Connected and Autonomous Vehicles call for a Collaborative Research and Development project, to create a new solution for the coordination of autonomous vehicle fleets.

Immense Simulations will develop ‘tools for autonomous logistics operations and management’, building on its SpatialOS distributed simulation platform, a new operating system that enables developers to build massive, detailed simulations running on thousands of machines in the cloud.

The project team seek to build on existing research in cooperative routing, fleet operations, predictive vehicle health management and real time traffic management. By combining the latest thinking with Improbable’s SpatialOS developer platform, fleet operators will be able to optimise the operation of autonomous fleets at city-wide scale, for the first time.

The Collaborative Research and Development project team also includes Cubic Transportation Systems.  The research work will be carried out at the Cubic Innovation Centre in London and in Transport Systems Catapult Milton Keynes office.

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