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Clayton South Victoria, Australia – Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Centre is working on developing driverless forklift technologies and trialing key components of the technology at Rio Tinto Aluminum’s Bell Bay Smelter in Tasmania.

"While autonomous vehicles have been operating in some factories for over a decade, heavy industrial settings, such as aluminum smelters, offer a greater challenge, and opportunity, to test the technology and look at what is required to make it work efficiently in industrial applications,” says Dr. Ash Tews, project leader and senior research scientist.

"The goal is to have autonomous vehicles conducting operations that are repetitive, hazardous or expensive for people to undertake," Tews says.

Tews hopes that in the next five years “off the shelf” autonomous vehicles will begin to infiltrate the market, but says in the meantime "piece-by-piece" integration of autonomous vehicle technology such as the localization and navigation technology components will bring the technology into the mainstream.

Read the full story at manmonthly.com.

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