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IPA2X

An intelligent pedestrian assistant for everyone

Project summary

The IPA2X project is helping to achieve zero accidents and decrease fatalities in urban areas. It will improve pedestrian safety by implementing a service of autonomous robots to assist pedestrians cross streets, notify nearby vehicles of the pedestrians’ movements, and identify obstacles on footpaths, bike paths and roads that may hinder pedestrian movements. In particular, the robots will assist people with limited mobility such as parents with young children, wheelchair users, and elderly people. User feedback will be solicited over the course of the project to improve the service. 

Project start:

1 January 2022

Budget:

€750 000

Context

Increase the safety of pedestrians, especially children and older people, by building an autonomous robot and associated operating system to facilitate crossing roads safely.

Challenge

Improved pedestrian and cyclist safety and a significantly reduced number of road accidents and deaths.

Expected outcome

An autonomous robot composed of an intelligent rover with safe integration of AI technologies with real-time capabilities, and development of a human-machine interface to increase the chances of acceptance and accessibility of autonomous robot technologies in broader society.

Project partners

Silver
France

Ynstant

Silver
Spain

RMIT Europe

Silver
Spain

Parkunload

Project Lead

Andrea Bastoni

andrea.bastoni@tum.de