Design of a Reconfigurable Multi-Sensor Testbed for Autonomous Vehicles and Ground Robots

Abstract

In the field of autonomous vehicles and robotics research, a well-designed testbed can provide a convenient and safe development environment. In this paper, we propose and implement a reconfigurable testbed equipped with multiple heterogeneous sensors and a compact but powerful local computation unit. The proposed testbed benefits from a self-sustaining design, and can be smoothly reconfigured to different varieties of vehicles. These features make the testbed a novel and ideal platform for testing and verifying navigation, recognition and control algorithms under diverse scenarios.