1. Autonomous Drive<br />Automatic driving should be just over the horizon. We can imagine being able to play games with the family, or give undivided attention to the passing scenery, or sleeping along the way so we could drive straight through and feel good on arrival. Automatic driving will make these pleasures a reality. Beyond that, with cruise control and the increasing number of electronic distractions, there are more demands for driver attention. A certain amount of distraction is helpful in preventing the hypnotic effect of sameness and monotony, but each distraction gives an additional opportunity to let attention slip from the main task at hand, with a consequent lapse in safety. So automatic driving would also improve safety and can be justified on that ground alone.<br />Autonomous Drive is a completely automated highway driving system. An autonomous vehicle uses on-board sensors (global positioning system (GPS), lasers, radars, and cameras) to track other vehicles, detect static obstacles, and localize itself relative to a road model. A three-layer planning system combines mission, behavioral and motion planning to drive in open environment. The mission planning layer considers which street to take to achieve a mission goal. The behavioral layer determines when to change lanes and precedence at intersections and performs error recovery maneuvers. The motion planning layer selects actions to avoid obstacles while making progress toward local goals.<br />In this paper, we will go through the design and development of this remarkable technology. Auto drive concept comprises of GPS receiver, Inter Vehicle Signaling, Radar feed for neighboring object detection, map updates and weather feed system. In the architecture design, the software implementing the AutoDrive system will be divided into the following four subsystems i.e. Inter Vehicle Signaling Subsystem, Obstruction Detection Subsystem and Position Mapping Subsystem. Every subsystem is interconnected to each other. Impact of a software failure in the system shall be less than 500 ms. A complete failure of the AutoDrive system shall result in the vehicle automatically moving out of traveled AutoDrive lanes to the shoulder. There are some requirements like Construction and Road Closure, Weather Feed, Map Analysis, Radar Scanning etc. which are to be fulfilled. GPS is the key of Autonomous Drive so AutoDrive system should support GPS repeater when a vehicle enters a tunnel or has no access to the GPS satellites. <br />Ankit Gupta Amit Kumar Pandey<br />3rd Year 3rd Year <br />Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering <br />NIT Durgapur NIT Durgapur<br />ankitkmrgupta@gmail.com akp.nitdgp@gmail.com<br />+91-9635021955 +91-9007578331<br />