Development of a Shared Indoor Smart Mobility Platform Based on Semi-Autonomous Driving

This paper details the development of a Shared Indoor Smart Mobility device called AngGo. As a precursor to the development process, we conducted user research on three kinds of outdoor personal mobility. Our goal was to determine the major differences between outdoor and indoor personal mobility and to ensure that AngGo would meet the requirements of indoor personal mobility in a practical way, as informed by the results of surveys and interviews. Tests were conducted on the time-of-flight sensors to be used for indoor autonomous driving. Manual mode as well as the experiment-based equations governing the sensors were optimized through user testing. Our observational experiments, which were carried out in the lobby of a building, showed that both autonomous and manual modes functioned as designed. This study makes a contribution to the literature by describing how our AngGo device features an autonomous driving platform that can transport riders around an indoor environment.

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