ASSIST: An Advanced Snow Plough and Salt Spreader Based on Innovative Space Based Technologies

Antonio Defina, Alfredo Favenza, Gianluca Falco, Diego Orgiazzi, Marco Pini

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Abstract:	In a densely populated urban environment, heavy snow events during the winter season represent a critical issue for citizens and public administration. In some city and critical areas, is one of the scenarios, which might benefit of smart advanced services able to run in efficient and cost-saving mode. The need to maintain the roads open and safe is still a driver for developing leading-edge navigation services. In such scenarios, the need of having a precise knowledge of snow plough position as well as of road coordinates, boundaries and roadside elements becomes crucial to avoid collisions of the snow plough with hidden road infrastructures during the winter maintenance operations. In order to face these new challenges and keep up with the need to assure an adequate safety level for workers and citizens, it becomes increasingly important to improve the technology applied to the winter maintenance process. ASSIST (Advanced Snowplough and salt Spreader based on Innovative Space Technologies) aims to address the aforementioned issues exploiting the capabilities of GNSS and Earth Observations technologies. ASSIST proposes an end-to-end system that is able to collect and aggregate data from different sources such as Earth Observations, navigation data and road databases. This paper presents the architectural design, highlighting the role of the space assets (GNSS\INS integration and Earth Observation) and the preliminary results achieved during on field tests performed on a real winter maintenance truck in collaboration with Swedish Transport Administration and Norwegian Public Road Administration.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015) September 14 - 18, 2015 Tampa Convention Center Tampa, Florida
Pages:	2041 - 2054
Cite this article:	Defina, Antonio, Favenza, Alfredo, Falco, Gianluca, Orgiazzi, Diego, Pini, Marco, "ASSIST: An Advanced Snow Plough and Salt Spreader Based on Innovative Space Based Technologies," Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, September 2015, pp. 2041-2054.
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