World's First Automated Valet Parking (AVP) | 2021 Mercedes Benz S-Class Driverless Parking Service

Описание: Mercedes-Benz, Bosch, and Apcoa are working to provide the world’s first commercial fully automated valet parking (AVP) service which is a driverless parking service in Stuttgart airport in Germany.

The new 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is equipped with the technology to enable driverless, fully automated parking service. For AVP, Bosch is using camera-based infrastructure for the first time to detect lanes and obstacles. The parking garage operator Apcoa is testing barrier and payment functions as the basis for automated valet parking, enabled by its Apcoa Flow digital mobility platform. In the future, a command from a smartphone will tell cars where to park in Stuttgart Airport’s P6 parking garage.

Automated Valet Parking (AVP) to drive down the airport stress: Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and the parking garage operator Apcoa introduce the world's first driverless and fully automated parking service at Stuttgart airport in the near future. To this end, the automated valet parking (AVP) system co-developed by Bosch and Mercedes-Benz is to be made ready for commercial operation. The new 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is already geared up to accommodate it as the world’s first production vehicle to feature the technology required for future infrastructure-based AVP. As an option, customers can buy the pre-installation for what the company calls the INTELLIGENT PARK PILOT (IPP), which makes the S-Class capable of receiving a smartphone command to drive itself to a reserved parking space. The P6 parking garage at Stuttgart airport will serve as the pilot for the planned commercial automated parking service. Here, the companies will test how the vehicle technology onboard the 2021 S-Class interacts with the intelligent Bosch infrastructure and Apcoa Flow, the digital platform provided by the parking garage operator Apcoa. The platform makes the whole parking process ticketless and cashless. In the airport parking garage, preparations are underway to begin piloting the planned AVP service. The aim of this trial with new 2021 S-Class vehicles at Stuttgart airport is to ensure that interactions between the vehicle, infrastructure technology, and parking garage operator run smoothly and are optimized for the customer.

In July 2019, Bosch and Mercedes-Benz received the world’s first special permit to operate AVP for selected E-Class vehicles without a safety driver in real-life, mixed parking garage traffic at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Equipped with the appropriate pre-installation for the INTELLIGENT PARK PILOT, the new 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is the first production vehicle to feature AVP technology, which enables it to park without a driver. However, this is conditional on the future availability of parking garages with the appropriate infrastructure, as well as on national legislators giving AVP the green light. This makes the Mercedes-Benz S-Class the world’s first vehicle to feature a pre-installation for automated driving function.

To facilitate the new one-touch parking function, a spacious drop-off and pick-up area will be set up directly behind the entrance to the P6 parking garage, giving AVP users a convenient place to leave their vehicles. As they comfortably make their way to the terminal and check-in, their S-Class will park itself in the basement, guided by information from the infrastructure technology. In other words, users no longer need to worry about maneuvering or having to squeeze out of their cars when the space they have finally found proves to be too narrow. For the test phase, P6 will initially have two spaces available for self-parking vehicles.

The pilot parking garage at Stuttgart airport will be a premiere for new Bosch video cameras that can identify vacant parking spaces, monitor the driving aisle and its surroundings, and detect obstacles or people in the aisle. Until now, lidar sensors have been used for this purpose. A dedicated control center in the parking garage then calculates the route the vehicles need to take to reach an available space. Thanks to the information that the cameras provide, it is also possible for cars to drive themselves around the parking garage even on narrow ramps, enabling them to move between different stories. The in-vehicle technology autonomously converts the information from the infrastructure into driving maneuvers. If the cameras detect an unexpected obstacle, for example, the vehicle safely performs an emergency stop. As Europe’s largest parking garage operator, Apcoa also has a strategic interest in offering innovative premium services like AVP in more of its parking garages. The company manages 1.5 million individual parking spaces at over 9,500 locations in 13 European countries.

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