Dublin, March 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Autonomous Vehicles Land, Water, Air 2017-2037" report to their offering. This unique commercially oriented report has detailed market and technical analysis with many new infograms, conference slides, roadmaps and forecasts. It is based on global research by PhD level multi-lingual analysts in 2016 with frequent updates. The Executive Summary and Conclusions is insightful, detailed yet easily assimilated. An introduction gives an overview of the technologies and a chapter analyses important applications followed by a chapter on general Level 5 autonomy technology then one specifically on software and processor technology for them. A chapter covers LIDAR and associated technologies and a final chapter scopes autonomous energy independent vehicles. This report looks at the whole subject in a critical manner revealing how the electric vehicle business at over $0.7 trillion in 2017 will include many new autonomous forms creating one billion dollar businesses for both the vehicles and their components. On the other hand, it shows how part of this story is the arrival of peak internal combustion engine, peak lead acid battery and peak car within 15 years causing mayhem in the industries involved. The report reveals the many very different reasons for adoption of autonomous vehicles in commercial, industrial, military, marine, aerospace and other applications and the very different degree of difficulty in achieving what is needed. Impediments are inspected, from insurance, legal, privacy and multiple road use issues to cost reducing hardware and software and making it more capable. Will the biomimetic approach of minimal sensors and superb sensor fusion software and data management prevail or are we headed for a burgeoning amount of hardware of increasing sophistication? Which types of electric vehicle land water and air are most promising for autonomy and when? What are the lessons of combining autonomy of navigation, task and energy such as electricity from sun, wind, waves, tide, thermals? Which developers are showing most promise? Where is the money being spent? Which projects will end in tears and where are things on the hype curve today? Why are search and rescue and agriculture such promising applications? What robot vehicles form a good escape route for car makers seeing car sales collapse? The programmer of the autonomous vehicle may make it act and react in the interests of society as a whole, for example killing the minimum number of people in an accident rather than acting in the interests of any passengers. Which is the right approach? This report addresses the issues with a balanced appraisal of it all. Key Topics Covered: 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1.1. Autonomy of navigation, task and power 1.2. Levels of autonomy 1.3. Why have autonomy? 1.4. Many autonomous car trials 1.5. Autonomy hits sales of cars but not of other vehicles 1.6. Convergence of technologies and new challenges 1.7. Hype curve for autonomy today 1.8. Strength of autonomy purchase propositions 1.9. Terminology 1.10. Autonomy of navigation, task and power: examples 1.11. Technologies of EIVs 1.12. Technology of autonomy 1.13. The current players in on-road autonomy 1.14. Market forecasts 1.15. Autonomy roadmap 1.16. Mining 1.17. Consolidation of hardware suppliers 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1. Definition and building blocks 2.2. Progress towards full autonomy 2.2.1. Simplifying the environment 2.3. Connectivity and automation reduce fuel consumption 2.4. Level 5 autonomous vehicles 2.5. Autonomous vehicles are best when they are electric 2.6. Benefits of autonomy 2.7. Huge impact of autonomous car as bus is calculated in 2017 3. SOME IMPORTANT APPLICATIONAL SECTORS 3.1. Agricultural Robots and Drones 3.2. Autonomous ships 3.3. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUV 3.4 Autonomous inland boats: Roboat project 4. LEVEL 5 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY 4.1. Degree of difficulty 4.2. Autonomous vehicles in warehousing and logistics 4.3. Autonomy technology overview: land, water, air 4.4. Hardware toolkit on land 5. SOFTWARE AND PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR AUTONOMY 5.1. Mission centric advances 5.2. Autonomous vehicle platform: functional diagram for sensing and control 5.3. Processing for fully autonomous vehicles 6. LIDAR FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES 6.1. LIDAR for autonomous vehicles 7. AUTONOMOUS ENERGY INDEPENDENT VEHICLES EIV; AEROSPACE, LAND, WATER 7.1. End game is energy independent pure electric not dynamic charging 7.2. Electric vehicle powertrain evolution: typical figures expected for cars 7.3. Key enabling technologies by powertrain 7.4. Com-BAT surveillance bat 7.5. Solar Ship EIV helium inflatable fixed wing aircraft Canada autonomous, sun alone 7.6. Northrop Grumman surveillance airship up for 10 years 7.7. Mitre DARPA airship USA 7.8. Titan Aerospace UAV USA 7.9. Solar Eagle UAV USA 7.10. Self assembling autonomous unmanned EIV aircraft Aurora Flight Sciences 7.11. Charge autonomous delivery truck UK 7.12. New Airbus autonomous aircraft November 2016 7.13. Tesla surprises November 2016 7.14. Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters November 2016 For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4ssfv8/autonomous
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