Traversable Area Judge Methods and Demonstration Experiment Field for the Autonomous Driving System of Electric Mobility Scooter in a Walking Environment

Abstract

One of the problems in a super-aging society is to secure transportation for the elderly. To solve the issues, the authors focused on electric mobility scooters that is one of the personal mobility. The purpose of this research is to develop the autonomous driving system of electric mobility scooters for realizing safe transportation and new mobility services. This paper describes the introduction of traversable area judge methods in the walking environment the authors proposed. And, demonstration experiment field that simulated the walking environment prepared is also described.