Waterloo Autonomoose team delivers a successful autonomous car demonstration at CES 2017

by Michal Antkiewicz on January 9, 2017

GSD Lab members (from Autonomoose Team) were involved in the successful Renesas autonomous car demonstration at CES 2017.

  • Renesas provided the Lincoln MKZ car and their computing hardware (RDrive and R-Car chips).
  • Autonomoose Team created the autonomy stack software.
  • BlackBerry QNX AVIC provided the QNX real-time operating system.

The demonstration ran every 15 minutes for four straight days (Jan 05-08) for approx. 9 hours per day. The car was driving a few scenarios on a closed loop track on CES parking lot, including interaction with another car via V2V radio, interaction with a traffic light via V2I radio, handling stop sign and yielding to oncoming traffic. The implementation featured tripple hardware redundancy for control and the demo showcased fail-operation after simulated failure of one control node (node went silent) as well as fail-operation after a simulated cyber security attack which injected spurious control messages.

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