Autonomous vehicles – vehicles of all kinds which use technology to understand the environment around it and operate without human involvement – are big news. While we might be most familiar with the self-driving mode on Tesla, the world of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is so much more than that.
Super-efficient freight and logistics. Accessible travel options for people with disabilities. Drones and planes operating without pilots. Even the Indy 500.
The world of AVs is rapidly evolving. Explore more about how Purdue innovators are poised to revolutionize the industry.
Smart Crossroads and the race to bring innovation to freight and logistics
Smart Crossroads is a pivotal ecosystem strategically connecting Purdue’s extensive resources with leading industry partners to solve the opportunities and challenges facing the freight and logistics industry.
Machine vision that sees in darkness like broad daylight
Machine vision helps robots and autonomous vehicles react to their environments without human intervention. Thermal imaging is the best way to create that vision since it can sense through darkness, but it doesn’t show texture of features. HADAR TeX solves these issues.
AIDA3 launch brings AI into autonomous aviation
Aerovy Mobility Develops cloud software to support electric aircraft infrastructure
Aerovy Mobility, a Purdue University-connected startup, has developed software solutions to benefit airport and vertiport operators and real estate developers looking to establish advanced air mobility technology at existing and potential sites.
How could future autonomous transportation be accessible to everyone?
Professor Brad Duerstock looks to change the paradigm of technology development being a retroactive accomodation. His work focuses on helping industry make AVs accessible to people with disabilities.
Purdue Expert: Self-Driving Cars
While fully automatic self-driving cars are still a way off, Greg Shaver, professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at Purdue University, says that adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and automatic emergency braking are all important technologies that help enhance the experience of drivers.
Purdue University offers a range of educational and industry-focused resources for the development of autonomous transportation. Learn more about all the ways Boilermakers are creating the future of autonomous vehicles.
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
An innovation hub to future-proof connected and autonomous technologies. Discovery Park will oversee this initiative by forming strategic partnerships and will provide integrated, world-class engineering, data science, policy, economic and social science problem-solving capabilities and solutions.
Purdue announces four new online interdisciplinary engineering master’s degree concentrations
Purdue University’s online interdisciplinary engineering master’s program now offers four new concentrations covering autonomous vehicles and other autonomous systems, the Internet of Things, robots, and engineering and technology for national defense.
Autonomous and Connected Systems (ACS) Initiative
ACS faculty partner with external academic partners, corporations, and international organizations to promote and advance the current state-of-the-art in autonomy, robotics, and IoT engineering and science.
AIDA3
The Center on AI for Digital, Autonomous and Augmented Aviation is a multidisciplinary consortium founded by Purdue University and Windracers, a leading cargo drone operator, with opportunities for additional partners dedicated to innovation.
Purdue AI Racing Initiative
Purdue AI Racing (PAIR) Initiative is a collaboration between Purdue University and the United States Military Academy at West Point in order to compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge.
Motorsports engineering program is fueling the industry’s future
There’s only one institution in the country providing an undergraduate motorsports engineering program that’s recognized by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. And it’s located less than a 15-minute drive from the Indianapolis 500.
