India’s first Autonomous Navigation facility, TiHAN was inaugurated at the IIT Hyderabad campus. TiHAN Testbed will provide a unique platform for high quality research between academia, industry and R&D labs both at the national and international level.
TiHAN or Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation is a multidisciplinary initiative, developed at a budget of Rs. 130 crores by the Union Ministry of Science & Technology that will make India a global player in the futuristic and next generation smart mobility technology.
Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science & Technology inaugurated the facility, adding that the vision of TiHAN-IITH is to become a global player for next generation smart mobility technologies and the Ministry of Science & Technology has come forward to support this initiative, which will be a trendsetter for others as well.
The minister said that TiHAN is developing and deploying a real-time CPS system utilising autonomous UAVs and ground/surface vehicles for many application sectors of the national importance of this decade.
“This testbed includes simulation platforms that allow for non-destructive testing of algorithms and prototypes. Several real-world scenarios can be emulated on the testbed. In terrestrial systems, a few examples of these scenarios are Smart Cities, Signalised Intersections, Autonomous Vehicle Interactions with Cyclists and Pedestrians, Wireless Networking among vehicles and Road-Side Units, etc. The autonomous vehicle testbed also provides dummy signboards, pedestrians, overpasses, and bikers to test all real-world conditions,” he added.
