1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1. Definition
1.2. Timeline
1.3. Sophistication vs continuity
1.4. Highly automated and fully automated
1.5. Benefits and paybacks
1.6. Degree of difficulty
1.7. Why go autonomous?
1.8. Hype curve for autonomous vehicles
land, water, air
1.9. Technology
1.10. Market size
1.11. Effect of 2015 oil price collapse on
electric vehicles
1.12. Lessons from SMMT Connected London
March 2015
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. Definitions
2.2. Vibrant sectors
2.3. Drive Train Technology
2.4. Control and navigation technology
2.4.1. Vehicle with or without
infrastructure
2.4.2. Autonomous land vehicle without
infrastructure
2.5. Autonomous driving or green driving?
2.6. Effect of 2015 oil price collapse on
electric vehicles
3. TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
3.1. System architecture and technology
3.2. Sensor Individual Technologies
3.3. Autonomous Vehicles Research Platforms
3.4. Cameras in drones
3.5. Valeo
3.6. Velodyne LiDAR
4. AUTONOMOUS CARS AND TAXIS
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Google
4.3. Uber
4.4. BMW
4.5. Mercedes
4.6. Nissan IDS Concept
4.7. Tesla
4.8. UK Autodrive consortium
4.9. Delphi autonomous car 2015
4.10. DOT Product USA
4.11. Autonomous car research in Korea
4.11.1. 2015 EVS28 exhibition and
conferences Korea
4.11.2. The Korea smart car development
activities
5. OFF-ROAD LAND AVS
5.1.1. Robot vacuum cleaners
5.1.2. Robot lawn mowers
5.1.3. Sidewalk delivery robot
5.1.4. Agricultural autonomous quadbike
5.1.5. Land-based military
5.1.6. Force multiplier
5.1.7. Many operating modes and programs
5.1.8. Lockheed Martin AMAS kits
5.1.9. US Army technology roadmap
5.1.10. Imaging and Payload UGV Technology
5.1.11. Evolution of Technology Standards,
COTS and Engineering Innovation
6. PERSONAL AND COMMERCIAL AVS
6.1.1. Tetwalkers
6.1.2. coModule autonomous bike
6.1.3. Disaster search and rescue
6.2. Agriculture and mining
7. AUTONOMOUS MARINE VEHICLES - SURFACE
CRAFT
7.1.1. Unmanned boat gathering oil USA
7.1.2. ReVolt unmanned zero emission short
sea ship of the future
8. AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS)
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Large AUVs
8.3. Small AUVs
8.4. Swimmers vs gliders
8.4.1. Definitions
8.4.2. Demand
8.4.3. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
USA
8.4.4. Monterey Bay Aquarium Ocean Research
Institute USA
8.4.5. Florida Atlantic University USA
8.4.6. OceanServer Technology USA
8.4.7. Kongsberg Norway
8.4.8. Teledyne USA, Iceland
8.4.9. Autosub6000 UK
8.4.10. a.r.s Technologies GmbH Germany
8.4.11. DRDO India
8.4.12. JAMSTEC Japan
8.4.13. NASA USA
8.5. Deploying AUVs Canada
8.6. Wave and sun powered sea gliders
8.6.1. Virginia Institute of Marine Science
USA
8.6.2. Falmouth Scientific Inc USA
8.6.3. Liquid Robotics USA
8.7. Network of unmanned undersea platforms
assist manned vessels
8.8. Biomimetic unmanned underwater craft
8.8.1. Robot jellyfish USA and Germany
9. UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS)
9.1.1. Definitions and scope
9.2. Needs
9.2.1. Diving UAV
9.3. Small unmanned aerial vehicles
9.3.1. Introduction
9.3.2. Airbus becomes a quadcopter user in
2014
9.3.3. UAR postal delivery
9.3.4. AeroVironment Raven, Puma,
Hummingbird
9.3.5. AirShip Technologies Group
9.3.6. Hirobo Japan
9.3.7. Lockheed Martin seeds
9.3.8. Robot insects USA
9.3.9. University of Michigan bat, solar
plane USA
9.3.10. Lite Machines Corporation USA
9.3.11. NRL launch an unmanned aerial
vehicle from a submerged submarine
9.3.12. Quadcopter piloted by smartphone:
Vienna University of Technology
9.4. Some new uses of small UAVs 2014-5
9.4.1. Mini helicopters tracking weeds
Australia
9.4.2. Drones learn how diseases spread
Malaysia
9.4.3. Drones monitor killer whales Canada
9.4.4. NMSU tests unmanned aircraft over
active mine USA
9.5. Swarming, self-healing networks of
UAVs USA
9.6. Swarming 3D eye-bots in Germany
9.7. Large electrical UAVs
9.8. Planetary exploration
9.9. DOD upper atmosphere dirigible USA
9.9.2. VESPAS Europe
9.9.3. AeroVironment Helios and Global
Observer
9.10. Aurora Flight Sciences USA
9.11. Lockheed Martin USA
9.11.1. Airbus HAPS solar plane
9.11.2. Facebook vs Google
9.11.3. Boeing and Versa USA, QinetiQ &
Newcastle University UK
9.11.4. Japanese solar sail to Venus
9.11.5. NASA testing electric propulsion
9.12. UAV payload market
9.12.1. Amazon drone delivery
9.12.2. UAVs can recharge their batteries
by perching on power lines