Every day, private motor transportation causes traffic jams, pollution and a shortage of parking spaces. Automobile is one of the biggest burdens on urban spaces. The basic intention behind this technology is to make an electric car travel a short distance autonomously. This E-Mobile will be able to park independently in the future and will also be able to find the next charging station without a driver. They are developing a dynamic model that perceives the environmental situation on the basis of cost-effective sensors.When parking, the Electronic helpers will warn of a possible collision and keep the necessary distance to the car ahead during traffic. Researchers at the Frauhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering are working on vehicles of tomorrow, which can drive through traffic without human assistance.
Sensors:
Sensors need to recognize the environment so that the vehicle can navigate around obstacles and find their goal.
Step 1: The electric car is indented to learn to find a parking space and to park without scratch.
Step 2: The car should be able to recharge itself with the electricity without human help.
Scenario:
The driver parks the car in the parking garage on any randomly available parking space. The car takes care of everything by itself. It communicates via a wireless interface with the charging station and the parking garage management. In this process, it provides information about its location and charge level. If the battery is empty and the charging station is free, it maneuvers in the corresponding parking station and is charged inductively without cable. Then it makes room for the next electric car and rolls to a free parking space.
Technology available:
Project manager is referring to the robots that find their way easily in a known environment. According to him building a car similar to this technology does not take a lot of effort. Many modern cars already have most of the sensors that are required for this. They can provide a picture of the environment, when the data that these devices collect just have to be combined and interpreted accordingly. They are now developing this technology with the help of complex simulation programs and soon they want to test the results in practice on a demonstration vehicle.
When a car is intended to move autonomously in traffic it becomes more difficult and this requires sensors that can look hundreds of meters ahead as well as software that can react to any unforeseen events. The laser scanner can perceive the surrounding area up to a distance of 200 to 300 meters.
Mobility a reality:
Any customer could use his smart phone to call a car, which would then drive to the desired location. An on-board unit enables the car to communicate with various cloud services, other e-vehicles and the charging infrastructure. As a result, the car can provide data on its position, or how much charge is remaining.
Information and communication solutions, both are reliable and easy to use. However, everything depends on having a convenient charging infrastructure integrated within the city.
TOUCH FREE MOBILE DEVICES
The working principle of this technology is by developing interaction between the user and the mobiles / iPads, so that it does not require touching the display. By this technology we can scroll through pages, select or move objects by moving a hand. Focus is to use this touch- free interaction in stationary installations such as laptop, PC, mobile phones and tablets.
Some situations that need this new technology:
This technology is a gift to those people working in following sectors
Ø People in baking industry baking bread with their hands with flour.
Ø In workshops were the hands are oily.
Ø For the people with “mouse arm”.
In demand:
In order to tackle the competing new technologies and to promote, many companies around the world are focusing on the field of touch – free interaction. It’s possible with the Samsung’s newest mobile phone to scroll through an e-book by moving our fingers in front of the integrated infra-red sensor.
Challenges with Present Status:
Samsung is focusing on simple infra-red technology, which has limited sensitivity. Also the sensors will be on the top of the PC / iPad / mobile, if we move the finger just away from the sensor nothing happens.
Area coverage:
This technology enables larger working surface so that the whole screen can be used. This technology enables the system to pick up on what we are doing in front of and beside the screen. It is possible to control the device without having to screen off the display as it creates a large interaction area. The coverage area is about 2 cm to 30 cm from the display of either the mobile / tablet.
Benefits:
· Touch- free interactions make it cheap and power – efficient.
· Systems become much small and uncomplicated.
· Ultrasound technologies involved offers all the potential benefits of infra–red technologies.
· Enables larger space from which we can detect and recognize the user’s gestures.
· Operation is not limited to the top of the device, but can operate in front of whole screen, which is also best in terms of ergonomics.
Additional features:
This technology had an extremely good response internationally from all mobile phone manufacturers and also has awarded an “INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION AWARD” in Japan.
Future development:
Researchers are trying to expand this by introducing responds to vocabulary to include gestures for the most advanced common commands such as drag and drop. This prototype promotes only few milliwatts of power from the mobile, this negligibly requires less power compared to smart phone camera.
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