2104 History of Vehicle Automation
Toshihiro Tsumura · The Proceedings of the Transportation and Logistics Conference · 2014
This report presents a history of a technical committee for Vehicle Automation, established in 1978 in Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers (currently, the Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers). Vehicle automation is a research and technical field related to automation and system integration of various kinds of land-sea-and-air vehicles such as mobile robots, automobiles, ships, and airplanes. The member consists of researchers and engineers in government, industry, and academia. Since 1978, we have been holding symposiums and technical visits every year in order to contribute to progress of the related area through discussions and information exchanges about state-of-the-art technologies and business.