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Optical guidance system steers buses as if on tracks

By Andres Kammermann, Kontron and Denis Marchand, Siemens SAS

The optical guidance system Optiguide steers the bus to within less than 5 cm of the bus stop. For the onboard control computer the robust and compact PC/104-Plus boards from Kontron are in use. The CPUs are the AMD Geode processors which excel through low power requirements and offer long-term availability.

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