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ATLASCAR: A Sample of the Quests and Concerns for Autonomous Cars

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The ATLASCAR project started in 2010 as an engineering and scientific project at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with the goal to develop a system to study and improve autonomous driving and driving assistance capabilities. The focus was made both at the engineering level to develop a real scale instrumented and automatic vehicle prototype, and at the research level for advanced perception and system command using a rich set of sensors and the associate computational and software architecture. Besides the expected challenges, new fronts appeared and a set of concerns has been studied which lightened up challenges that will certainly continue to drive other authors and technological players concerned with autonomous cars and the automotive industry.

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Santos, V. (2020). ATLASCAR: A Sample of the Quests and Concerns for Autonomous Cars. In: Gusikhin, O., Madani, K. (eds) Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics . ICINCO 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 495. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11292-9_18

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