Венков, Пенчо Георгиев; Venkov, Pencho Georgiev,
(2004)
This paper describes a system for virtual attachment of autonomous vehicles.. The system is aimed to guide one or more unmanned vehicles — followers without a mechanical attachment to the guiding vehicle. A multisensors system, mounted on the follower vehicle, is used to measure the linear and the angular velocity of the guiding vehicle, marked by a colored lighting sign-board. The multisensors system includes a colored RGB computer vision, a long range radar for vehicles and a short range ultrasonic locator. The system measures the parameters of the guiding vehicle's trajectory in me time or a TV frame, e.g. 40 ins.