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Fig. 11.5 Platero in the gran cooperative driving challenge
the information (weather conditions, traffic incidences, etc.) provided by the
infrastructure elements like traffic lights and the information provided by other vehi-
cles. In November 2011 a public exhibition of the project results was done in the
CAR facilities.
The first European competition Gran Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC)
took place in May 2011 and demonstrated the utility of communications. The GCDC
was an open competition among research teams about cooperative autonomous
driving. The participants had to develop communicating longitudinal controllers to
move a line of vehicles. The controllers had to transmit their positions, velocities and
accelerations by a wireless network in order to keep a clearance distance between
consecutive cars. The lateral control was realized manually.
AUTOPÍA team participated in the exhibitions programmed in the Intelligent
Vehicles Symposium that took placed in Alcalá de Henares, June 2012 (Pérez et al.
2012 ). In this case two AUTOPÍA cars, Molinero and Platero, done several trips