Edutech Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio Self-Driving Cars and Aerial Vehicles
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Jumpstart your Autonomous vehicles for teaching and Research with world-class platforms. Ideal solution for academics & corporates looking to build a multi-vehicle (Aerial & Ground) research program in a short time.
Self-Driving Car Research Studio
Advancements in sensor and software technologies are enabling cutting-edge autonomous vehicle research and development. From accurate sensing of the environment to implementing intelligent algorithms for safe and efficient autonomous driving, these complex and diverse applications pose significant challenges to researchers. The Quanser Self-Driving Car Research Studio is the ideal platform designed specifically for academic research. Use it to jump-start your research, and scale your existing vehicle fleet, while leveraging multiple software environments. The studio brings you the tools and components you need to test and validate dataset generation, mapping, navigation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other advanced self-driving concepts.
QCAR: Sensor-rich autonomous vehicle for self-driving applications
QCar, the feature vehicle of the Self-Driving Car Research Studio, is an open-architecture, scaled vehicle designed for academic research. It is equipped with a wide range of sensors including LIDAR, 360-degree vision, depth sensor, IMU, encoders, as well as user-expandable IO. The vehicle is powered with an NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2 supercomputer that gives you exceptional speed and power efficiency. Working individually or in a fleet, QCar is the ideal vehicle for validating your research concepts such as dataset generation, mapping, navigation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and many more.
Edutech PIXKIT is an open source autonomous driving development and education kit
Edutech PIXKIT, full-stack, cost-effective, and high-performance, supports open-source autonomous driving software Apollo and Autoware, as well as platforms like ROS, MATLAB/Simulink, and more. With software and hardware platform stacks, plus comprehensive user manuals and documentation. Edutech PIXKIT is dedicated to lowering the entry barrier to autonomous driving development. It empowers academic professors, educational experts, developers, and general engineers to quickly develop and deploy autonomous vehicles, build/test algorithms, and launch AV demonstrations, sparking more possibilities.
- Rapid prototyping for autonomous driving vehicles
- Quick deployment and demonstration in single or multiple scenarios
Aerial & Multi-Agent Autonomous Vehicles Studio
Advancement in technology and innovative applications has led to the proliferation of unmanned vehicle research. Many application areas have emerged that require not only multiple vehicles but collaboration between multiple vehicle types. The diversity and complexity of these applications present significant challenges to researchers and developers, such as increasing difficulty in setting up and maintaining the evolving and growing drone fleet, as well as the need for standardized validation and verification platform to facilitate development, evaluation, and analysis. Quanser’s new Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio is the ideal solution for academics looking to build a multi-vehicle research program in a short amount of time. At the center of the Research Studio are two autonomous vehicles for air and ground: the QDrone and QBot 2e.
Autonomous Drone Labs
High-performance drone for indoor labs
The Quanser QDrone autonomous air vehicle is a midsize quadrotor equipped with a powerful onboard Intel® Aero Compute Board, multiple high-resolution cameras, and built-in Wi-Fi. As part of the Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio, this direct-access research-grade drone is tuned to accelerate your research and is ideal for innovative research in multi-agent, swarm, and vision-based applications.
Autonomous Vehicle digital simulation solutions to drive the future
At every stage of your project
We provide X-in-the-loop simulations technologies that allow engineers to accelerate their validation at every stage of their development cycle
85+ INSTITUTIONS
100+ RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED
1998
Stationary Testbeds
3 DOF UFO, 3 DOF Helicopter and 3 DOF Hover were Quanser’s first commercially available motion validation systems for research in flight dynamics and aerial vehicles control.
2006
Intelligent Remote Sensing Using ALTAV
Precarn-funded research project with Defence R&D Canada, focused on the improvement of UAV technology and allowing missions to be reconfigured during flight quickly, reliably and safely.
2007
Flying Quadcopters
With the improvements in IMU, processors, and battery technologies, actual flight systems became possible and affordable. Quanser responded with the first open-architecture quadrotor solution for indoor autonomous robotics research, Qball-X4.
Cooperative Control System for Multi-mission Networked Heterogeneous UVs
2008
Multi-vehicle Systems Lab
Addition of QBot, an autonomous ground robot, expanded the scope of research applications into heterogeneous multi-vehicle collaboration, formation control, and other similar areas.
Enhanced UGV via haptic and tactile feedback
2022
Next Gen of Research Drone
Now introducing a mid-sized drone to accelerate research in multi-agent, swarm and vision-based applications.