论文标题
Hercules在COVID-19大流行期间自动驾驶汽车的作用：无接触式货物运输的自动物流工具
The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation
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论文摘要
自2020年初以来，2019年冠状病毒病（Covid-19）在世界各地迅速蔓延。截至撰写本文的日期，该疾病在223个国家和地区的全球报告，感染了1.08亿人，并造成超过240万人死亡（https://covid19.who.int/，于2021年2月17日访问）。避免人对人的传播是控制和防止大流行的有效方法。但是，许多日常活动，例如在我们的日常生活中运输货物，不可避免地涉及人与人之间的联系。使用自主物流工具实现无接触式商品运输可以减轻此问题。例如，它可以降低驾驶员和客户之间病毒传播的风险。此外，许多国家在大流行期间采取了严格的封锁措施，以减少病毒传播（例如零售，餐饮），这给人类日常生活带来了不便。自动驾驶汽车可以运送人类购买的货物，以便人类可以不出去获取货物。这些要求激励我们开发一种自动驾驶汽车，称为Hercules，用于在19日大流行期间无接触式商品运输。通过在各种交通条件下交付任务的现实世界来评估车辆。
Since early 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. As at the date of writing this article, the disease has been globally reported in 223 countries and regions, infected over 108 million people and caused over 2.4 million deaths (https://covid19.who.int/, accessed on Feb. 17, 2021). Avoiding person-to-person transmission is an effective approach to control and prevent the pandemic. However, many daily activities, such as transporting goods in our daily life, inevitably involve person-to-person contact. Using an autonomous logistic vehicle to achieve contact-less goods transportation could alleviate this issue. For example, it can reduce the risk of virus transmission between the driver and customers. Moreover, many countries have imposed tough lockdown measures to reduce the virus transmission (e.g., retail, catering) during the pandemic, which causes inconveniences for human daily life. Autonomous vehicle can deliver the goods bought by humans, so that humans can get the goods without going out. These demands motivate us to develop an autonomous vehicle, named as Hercules, for contact-less goods transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vehicle is evaluated through real-world delivering tasks under various traffic conditions.
