AI based Autonomous Vehicle last mile delivery in the Post COVID-19 WorldIntroduction: The COVID-19 virus has resulted in a major shift in how and where people work. Increasingly people are not only being asked to work from home by their employers to prevent spread of COVID-19, but many are preferring to work from home given the choice. Home delivery of food, medicines and supplies via services such as Instacart has seen a substantial rise as people wish to keep physical distance from others. Home delivery itself has challenges in that the delivery items are typically handled by a human being - with potential to spread the COVID-19 virus. We therefore propose the use of fully-autonomous short range delivery systems for such deliveries with no human operators. We utilize the UCLA CAEV ANT or Autonomous Network Transporter Platform to explore and develop an urban prototypical transportation system that has zero human touch and one that is sustainable energy-wise, being fully electric and that uses AI to learn about the ever changing needs of COVID-19. For further information on this research project, email caev@smartgrid.ucla.edu |
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