Mobius™ is a software interface for commanding and controlling unmanned systems using the SAE AS-4 protocol (formerly JAUS). Mobius™ enables seamless operation of disparate robotic assets with capabilities ranging from simple tele-operation to fully autonomous operation.Mobius™ Case Studies:
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Goodyear Case Study
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is a leading manufacturer of tires, producing and selling tires under five different brand names. The quality of these tires is of paramount importance, and Goodyear has an extensive proving grounds for testing their products.Tire testing is time-consuming and often tedious work. Professional drivers are required to put the tires through the high-speed tests required. But for testing of Goodyear's tractor tires, the driving required is not high-speed, and it is definitely tedious. So Goodyear called on Autonomous Solutions to automate a John Deere tractor to do all the testing unmanned and with little human oversight.
ASI's beginnings were in agriculture, so it was uniquely qualified for the task.
Goodyear wanted a system that could repeat a course many times over with no variation in speed, and required little or no human intervention. The original system developed was a wheeled tractor and used Mobius 2 on the control unit. (The current version is Mobius 3.) The unmanned tractor was capable of operating safely at speeds up to 25 mph, and included radar obstacle detection to stop the tractor if an unexpected obstacle was near it.
In 2004, Goodyear asked for a tracked John Deere 8400T as well. When that system was delivered, the original system was upgraded to Mobius 3. Both tractors have been operating autonomously since 2005.
Mobius allows the operators of the tractors to remain in a comfortable building while Mobius tracks the position of each vehicle. The radar units on each tractor are shown in the display, so the operator will know where objects are detected. The radar are completely configurable from the control station. Operators can set what action the vehicle will take when objects are detected on each radar.
For testing that requires the tractor to be pulling an implement, Mobius lets the operator set the size of the implement, and uses that information to plan paths that won't drag it into fence posts or power poles.