Glossary

RADAR

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Radiowave detection and ranging devices send pulses of harmless microwave radiation in a wide spread and detect pulses which have bounced off hard objects. A reliable longer-range detection device, particularly in poor weather, it remains…

Rear Cross Traffic Alert

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When reversing out of a perpendicular parking space, this system detects vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians that are crossing behind the car up to 50 metres away. It then gives the driver an audio visual warning…

Rear View Camera

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Camera mounted on the rear bumper or inside the rear window facing backwards. Typically used for parking functionality.  Camera feed may be engaged on the dashboard only when reverse gear is engaged, and augmented with…

Remote Park Assist

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With the remote controlled park assist system, vehicles park themselves. All drivers need to do is press and hold a button on their ignition key or smartphone. This tells the vehicle to automatically move itself…

Roborace

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Autonomous vehicle racing development program, and expected to be active race series from ~2020. Currently using the NVidia Drive PX2 compute platform.

ROS

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Robot Operating System is robotics middleware (i.e. collection of software frameworks for robot software development). Although ROS is not an operating system, it provides services designed for heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level…