A trip from Italy to China using autonomous vehicles: behavior and testing

摘要

This paper describes behavior and testing of the vehicles set up by VisLab to cover, in autonomous mode, a long 13.000 km trip from Italy to China, passing through Moscow. The paper, begins with a short description of the hardware and focuses on the vehicle behavior, what kind of situations is able to negotiate and how they are managed. A description of how the system has been tested and how it performs on a test track concludes the paper. The journey started on July 20 from Milan. At the time of writing, the first 10 days of result are positive. A live video demonstration will be shown at the conference talk.