TiHAN
Source: indianexpress
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Union Minister of State inaugurated the first of it's kind, state of art "Autonomous Navigation" facility to develop unmanned ground and aerial vehicles in the IIT Hyderabad campus
Technology innovation hub on Autonomous Navigation-TiHAN
About TiHAN
Technology innovation hub on Autonomous Navigation-TiHAN is a multidisciplinary initiative, which aims at making India a global player in the futuristic and next-generation "Smart Mobility" Technology
- The multi-departmental initiative includes researchers from electrical, computer science, mechanical and aerospace, civil, mathematics and design at IITH
- The focus will be solving on various challenges hindering the real-time adoption of unmanned autonomous vehicles for both terrestrial and aerial applications
- It will facilitate research grounds to investigate the functioning of unmanned and connected vehicles in a controlled environment by replicating different situations
- It should be noted that there is no such testbed facility in India to evaluate the autonomous navigation of vehicles
- TiHAN will fill this gap by developing a fully functional and exemplary tested facility dedicated to connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
