This project will help facilitate safe and incremental adoption of (teleoperated) AVs to address many societal challenges, while accelerating the AV technology towards full autonomy. In particular, this project provides a unique opportunity for testing AV teleoperations in Midwest winter and other scenarios. In tackling the fundamental CISE research challenges, the innovations advanced in the project have broad applicability to many Industry 4.0 and other domains including smart manufacturing, precision agriculture and telehealth. All are vital to the national economy, security and well-being.
This project will serve both as forums for collaboration and technology translation across academia, industry, government and communities as well as nexus points for broadening participation in research and education. We plan to integrate the NextMOVE platform with Mcity2.0, thereby broadening access beyond UMN/UMich and the Midwest Region for integrated research and educational activities and community outreach. All the code, artifacts, datasets and results will be made available publicly, and disseminated to the research community to reproduce, reuse and improve our systems and experimentation.