Project: REDO, Remote driving operations

Remote operation of road vehicles can support testing and deployment of automated vehicles in many ways; this is sometimes referred to as vehicle teleoperation. The goal of Remote Driving Operations (REDO) project is to build knowledge and create opportunities in the emerging field of remote operation of road vehicles.

The main problem that the project addresses is how we can support deployment of new services and vehicles that does not require or may not have a driver in the vehicle, that is responsible for controlling it at all times.

The main results from the project will be tools, methods and demonstrations of remote operation of vehicles. However, the project does include comprehensive studies to give valuable scientific results on operational requirements on the system-of-systems for remote driving, as well as advice and overview on regulation and laws.

Objectives

The project will investigate different aspects related to remote driving operation as listed below:

• Challenges for the driver of teleoperated vehicles in a system of systems.
• Requirements on driver feedback and vehicles during teleoperation.
• Systems-of-systems architecture and infrastructures to support teleoperated driving and control tower operation.
• Laws and regulations concerning remote driving.

Different platforms available within the project will be used to conduct research on the topics above. These platforms are, for example, driving simulators, research concept vehicles, production vehicle equipped with remote driving system, etc.

Lastly, the results will be demonstrated using the platforms.

The results aims to support the competitiveness of Swedish industry and start-ups, with knowledge on potential effects of smart urban mobility solutions based on remote control of (autonomous) vehicles in a Systems-of-Systems (SoS) setting and creating a knowledge base for SoS engineering in the urban transportation domain.

Past activities

• REDO Final Event
  It will be held in February 10, 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The event where we will present findings from the project and demonstrate some of the results during the exhibition.
  About the REDO Final Event
  
• Workshop on Road Vehicle Teleoperation 2022
  In June 2022 in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV22).
  About the Road Vehicle Teleoperation workshop 2022
  
• Workshop on Road Vehicle Teleoperation 2021
  In July 2021 in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV21).
  About the Road Vehicle Teleoperation workshop 2021
  
• Virtual exhibition of EUCAD 2021
  In April 2021 REDO participated in the virtual exhibition at EUCAD 2021.
  EUCAD 2021 – Conference on Connected and Automated Driving, Virtual exhibition External link.