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The AtlasCar vehicle is a robot developed at the Automation and Robotics laboratoru in the Department of Mechanical Engeneering at the University of Aveiro. 
The main objective of this project is to develop both active and passive advanced security systems, for implementation in driver assistance system and autonomous vehicles. 
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The main goal of this work is the development of a remote emergency E-stop, with a control console, and also the creation of a vehicle monitoring system. These twosystem complient each other in the question of safety. 
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The E-Stop and the control console are part of a remote atuation system that manages three diferent states of atuation by user order: The three states are RUN, PAUSE and DISABLE. This system is mandatory to be eligle to participate in the international ELROB competion. Both software and hardware were developed with this goal in mind, acording to the competition directives.
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The monitoring system consists of a SQL database whose fields are published in a webpage. The refresh of the database is in charge of a ROS software module running on the atlascar using either a wifi or a 3g internet connection.
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Both systems were tested and validated in real operation.



