vehicle automation mining farming automotive military security industrial founded november 1 2000 headquarters petersboro utah united states key people mel torrie president and ceo website asirobots.com autonomous solutions inc. also known by the acronym asi was founded in 2000 as a spinoff from utah state university and is headquartered in petersboro utah . 1 autonomous solutions or asi manufactures an oem vendor independent automation technology that retrofits to existing equipment . the system uses gps radio and software technologies to create a fully autonomous vehicle . asi has installations in the mining farming automotive and military industries . contents 1 history 2 notable installations 2.1 bingham canyon mine 2.2 ford robotic durability testing program 2.3 lapd batcat 3 references 4 external links history edit autonomous solutions was founded in 2000 when it broke off from the center for self organizing and intelligent systems csois division of utah state university in logan utah to develop precision agriculture technologies for john deere . the company first moved to wellsville utah and then in 2007 relocated to petersboro utah . the petersboro headquarters is a 100 acre proving ground facility where hardware engineering software engineering and much of the robotics testing takes place . in 2003 asi released the first version of the mobius command and control software previously known as mars . this proprietary software system allows engineers and end users to control fully autonomous vehicles set and manipulate vehicle pathways and monitor vehicle health indicators from a remote command station . the software is currently on its 6th version . 2 in 2006 autonomous solutions entered the mining industry offering a vendor independent solution to mining end users . mining is currently one of asi s four premier markets . asi participates in the darpa grand challenge 2007 . 3 in 2011 asi led team wins the robotic range clearance competition r2c2 . 4 sponsored by the us department of defense . in 2011 asi entered the automotive market with specific offerings for automotive proving grounds for autonomous durability and endurance testing . in june 2013 ford motor company announced that it had been working with asi as their preferred automation supplier for their robotic durability testing program . the program runs durability tests 24 7 with the use of asi vehicle automation technology and was specifically launched to remove human durability drivers from ford s most punishing durability tracks . on june 14 2013 ford motor company releases a press release to the new york times 5 that highlights their robotic durability testing program . ford announces autonomous solutions as their preferred automation supplier for the proving ground automation project . on december 15 2014 asi announced a multi year partnership with mining major anglo american that was already under way to develop an autonomous haulage program . 6 notable installations edit bingham canyon mine edit in april 2013 a massive landslide 7 rocked the bingham canyon mine kennecott utah copper rio tinto group . between 135 165 million tons shifted collapsing one side of the world s largest open pit mine . the mine had been previously evacuated resulting in no human casualties but the slide destroyed the visitor s center and buried millions of dollars of equipment at the bottom of the mine . kennecott went to work immediately assessing the damage and looking at options to initiate cleanup on the unstable terrain . autonomous solutions was contacted to assist in the cleanup efforts by providing remote control automation for 6 excavators four cat 375d and two cat 390d . the excavators were used to safely move millions of tons of material off the most unstable areas at the top of the slide area . 8 ford robotic durability testing program edit on june 14 2013 ford motor company issued a press release detailing their robotic durability testing program . each new model that ford releases must first go through extensive durability and endurance testing to ensure that the vehicle meets ford s safety and quality standards . unfortunately some of the testing environments were creating health concerns for human test drivers causing abbreviated shifts and slowdowns in testing output . ford s solution was the robotic durability testing program 9 10 11 12 which allows vehicles to be tested on the most punishing test tracks at nearly the same productivity as other tracks . leveraging asi s vehicle automation products ford is able to match or exceed human driver accuracy and run testing 24 7 . lapd batcat edit the los angeles police department 13 contracted autonomous solutions to provide the automation piece for a teleoperated cat telehandler . the telehandler named batcat has seen action in several high profile situations involving bomb threats 14 and active shooters . 15 references edit robots take the wheel for ford road tests . the self driving cars using robots to test for safety and navigate pedestrians and traffic . reporters roundtable self driving cars . upi utah firms win robotic competition new york times rough road ahead but a robot driver takes it in stride anglo american partners with asi to develop haulage solutions . second landslide hits rio s bingham canyon mine 100 workers evacuated discovery channel canada the daily planet bingham canyon mine cleanup usa today ford puts robots in the driver s seat wired robots man the helm at ford s torturous test track motor trends autonomous ford transit van undergoes durability testing photo gallery popular mechanics robots are test driving your next car translogic 141 lapd batcat jewish journal lapd investigating bomb threat near wilshire boulevard temple los angeles times lapd s massive batcat used to protect officers in sylmar standoff external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title autonomous solutions & oldid 729862382 categories 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