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Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) ist ein hochmodernes Testfeld für fortschrittliche und autonome Fahrzeuge, das eine einzigartige Mischung aus realen Testumgebungen und modernster Infrastruktur bietet. Der Campus erstreckt sich über ein 4 km langes öffentliches Straßennetz im Industriegebiet Shannon, das mit modernster Sensor- und Telekommunikationstechnologie ausgestattet ist. Zu den Einrichtungen des FMCI gehören ein hochgradig vernetztes Straßennetz, ein eigenes Testgebiet, ein modernes Luftfahrtzentrum und ein Kontrollzentrum für datengestützte Überwachung und visuelle Analysen. Der Campus beherbergt eine breite Palette von F & E-Projekten, unter anderem von Jaguar Land Rover und Valeo, und hat erfolgreich nationale und europäische Mittel für Forschung und Innovation mobilisiert. Die Mission des FMCI besteht darin, die technologischen Lösungen zu erleichtern, die es Irland ermöglichen, sozial und wirtschaftlich von nachhaltigeren und effizienteren Transportsystemen zu profitieren.
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Abstract
The Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) was founded with the sole purpose of creating and delivering future mobility testbed facilities for stimulating research, development and innovation in the area of Autonomous Connected Electric Shared Vehicles (ACES), including Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), in Ireland. FMCI focuses on comprehensive mobility technologies that span both ground (autonomous driving, micro-mobility, smart cities, V2X communications) and air (unmanned drones, eVTOL, AAM, UTM) uses.
FMCI supports a range of parties, from individual researchers to multi-national corporations, as well as start-ups and government entities. FMCI assists organisations to conceive, develop, trial, and deploy societally transformative transport solutions both nationally and internationally.
The installation of state-of-the-art connectivity technologies at the FMCI testbed is providing an environment for the automotive industry, component suppliers, telecommunications companies and research institutions with the opportunity to adopt new approaches to develop innovation for future technologies. FMCI has been operational for over a year and is already facilitating various companies and higher education institutes (HEIs) to further their innovation and/or technologies.
1 Background
Mobility has a major impact on our economy and our society. Travel of the future will focus on the needs of the individual rather than the operators. It will be multi-modal involving a mixture of cars, buses, trains and planes [1]. Future mobility must be more environmentally friendly, more efficient and overall, much smarter. It will be driven by data and enabled by the latest technological advances. FMCI [2] seeks to facilitate the technological solutions which will enable Ireland to benefit socially and economically from more sustainable and efficient transport systems.
In 2017 the CAV (Connected & Autonomous Vehicles) Ireland [3] forum was formed with members from IDA, EI, SFI, Lero, Insight, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) working with industry partners from across the island of Ireland. The group focussed on identifying a value proposition for CAV in Ireland and helping to identify policy and regulatory barriers to our adoption of CAV, as well as the need for infrastructure to support the emerging ecosystem of companies involved in the development, manufacturing and testing of products and services related to CAV. The group concluded that an entity such as FMCI would support growth and expansion in these companies while providing opportunities to attract new inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and create new start-up opportunities for Irish researchers and entrepreneurs (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1.
Illustrating FMCI facilities at the Shannon free Zone (Image reproduced with permission from Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), copyright FMCI, 2024).
FMCI is delivering on the provision of a CAV test facility located in real-world settings, providing technology companies and researchers the ability to test and enhance their innovative solutions. The test facility is a non-for-profit entity and consists of a road network which is retrofitted with interconnected state of the art sensing and telecommunication technologies, all of which are fully accessible and controlled via a dedicated control centre located within the FMCI Headquarters (HQ). Within its first year of operations FMCI has expanded its offering which was initially focused on the provision of CAV text facilities, to also include aerial mobility R&D facilities.
FMCI facilities are available to its users/customers via a rental model with target users/customers of the facility including national and international automotive and technology providers that are interested in testing/validating their technology in real-world settings before the product release phase.
2 FMCI - An Automotive Testbed
FMCI’s open testbed spans over 4 km of public road network within the Shannon Industrial Estate. The testbed is highly connected with fibre network to our dedicated data centre. It is equipped with multiple sensors, CCTV, a set of traffic lights along with high accuracy location systems, as well as a data management and control centre. FMCI provides its customers access to an advanced control room capabilities enabling insightful and data-driven monitoring as well as visual analytics of mobility data. The control room is fully equipped with an audio-visual system for real-time monitoring of the testbed (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2.
(above left) and 3 (above right). Demonstrating a selection of FMCIs test vehicles (Images above reproduced with permission from Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), copyright FMCI, 2024).
At the Future Mobility Campus Ireland headquarters, customers can avail of private and secure workshop bays with all relevant services including high-speed broadband, a private virtual network, and a secure facial recognition access control. Customers are also offered access to a private or a common laboratory for any hardware works, etc. FMCI’s fleet includes a Jaguar I-Pace and two Land Rover Defenders. All vehicles are retrofitted with a wide range of sensing and data processing technology which are secured to a flexible and adaptable roof rack, connected to a data logger equipped with large data storage capacity, and fully integrated to our in-house data centre. Recently FMCI has also added a mobile control centre which allows for additional monitoring and data analysis in offsite areas which may not be covered by our fibre connection.
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2.1 Stimulating Innovation
New technologies and communications systems now embedded in vehicles are resulting in connectivity that opens up new possibilities, redefining mobility and changing public and private transport options [4]. While this is disrupting traditional business models it is also delivering opportunities for new business growth. FMCI facilitates innovation by providing start-ups; SMEs, MNCs as well as researchers with the infrastructure to trial, test, demonstrate and validate solutions for systems and technologies in a “laboratory with real-life conditions.”
2.2 FMCI Customer Use Case: Provizio
Provizio [5] is an Irish SME who have been based at FMCI for the past 12 months. Provizio’s technology fuses radar technology and on-board vehicle camera sensors with AI-on-the-edge processing and SLAM into one affordable, software-enhanced platform which can identify potential hazards with a high level of accuracy and speed. Each sensor is fully software-defined and integrated on an edge GPU - where proven AI-powered imaging techniques further improve their point cloud by more than 10x and in five dimensions. Provizio has been an anchor tenant for FMCI since its inception and utilise all aspects of FMCI infrastructure including, office rental for staff, test vehicle for technology integration, workshop space for hardware testing and vehicle integration as well as the FMCI data centre.
2.3 Diversity of R&D Projects
In its first 12 months of operation, FMCI has hosted a plethora of diverse R&D projects across a variety of organisations and research preforming entities, some of which include:
Jaguar Land Rover: JLR Shannon [6] is at the cutting edge of Jaguar Land Rover’s vision for the future and play an important role in developing new technologies to support electrification and self-driving features.
FMCI partner and several ongoing technological projects in conjunction with FMCI including V2X using FMCI fleet vehicles and testbed infrastructure.
Valeo [7]: Vision systems and automated parking, producing physical hardware and generating software intellectual property with artificial intelligence.
FMCI partner as well as using FMCI facilities to further develop their technologies.
3 FMCI – Facilitating Advanced Aerial Mobility
FMCI Air targets a high growth potential market that is Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM). From an industry perspective there are good synergies between air mobility and road mobility. Many of the same industry and research partners who are developing products for the future of road transportation will also utilise these products for air mobility. Users of the FMCI ‘Drone port’ can also avail of the facilities and infrastructure as listed above including the office space, laboratories, workshops, data centre and control room. The FMCI ‘Drone Port’ is designed to be scalable and mobile. To support testing and operations, the drone port offers a flight operations centre and a mobile unit to allow flexibility for off-site testing. The flight operations centre is based on a modular container equipped with the necessary radio and communications equipment to ensure flight safety.
4 FMCI – Leveraging National Funding
FMCI has also targeted European funding to further develop and demonstrate research projects in a real-world environment while also expanding its portfolio of clients throughout Europe. By leveraging nationally funded infrastructure, FMCI has been successful in a European proposal entitled ‘ÉALÚ-AER [8]’ which is a three-year project involving Irish and European partners. ÉALÚ-AER is one of the first European Digital Sky Demonstrators to focus on U-space and Urban Air Mobility and aims at accelerating the delivery of an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Digital European Skies through research and innovation. Over the past 6 months FMCI has also been requested to join 6 European consortia with regard to submitted R&D proposals under the Horizon Europe funding programme, all of which have either an automotive or ariel research component.
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