Parallel parking is a difficult manoeuvre for
drivers. The aim of this research was to develop a
system to perform this manoeuvre autonomously,
requiring no driver input at all.

The stages of this development were analysis of the
kinematics of vehicles, the design of a simulator
and prototype robot to demonstrate parking and the
development of parking algorithms to achieve reverse-
parallel parking at or above the standard of the
learner drivers logbook.

Equations were derived to describe the motion of a
vehicle. These were tested in a flexible Matlab
simulation.

A remote control...