MEMBER RESOURCES
Welcome to the CONFIDENTIAL member resources section - providing you with exclusive access to view and download these documents. The table below includes links to download several parts of the ISO 4448 draft technical standard.
Each is prefaced with an equivalent disclaimer and a request for confidentiality and feedback.
Latest Publications:
Blindspots - Discussion Paper (April 2023, 3 page PDF)
For a human operated vehicle, a blind spot is an area around the vehicle that cannot be directly seen by the driver while at the controls. Analogously, for a teleoperated PMR a blind spot would be any area that cannot be directly seen by the teleoperator, through the sensors on the PMR... [View/Download PDF]
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The Last Block (2020 Whitepaper, Grush)
Of all the automated vehicle scenarios that our cities face in the foreseeable future, the one that is likely to come soonest and to have the most unanticipated impacts is the introduction of small robotic vehicles on the sidewalk. [View/Download PDF]
Making Room for Robots (2021 URF Whitepaper, Grush)
Cities will need new 2 operating guidelines for curb/kerbsides and footways that will be used by automated taxis and service robots.
Smart Cities Policies & Financing: Approaches and Solutions
(2022 Textbook, Coombes, Grush)
Chapter 15: The Changing Management of Sidewalk and Kerb 2000-2025. In J.R. Vacca (Ed.) Published by Elsevier. [View/Download PDF]
Smart Cities Policies & Financing: Approaches and Solutions
(2022 Textbook Coombes, Grush)
Chapter 16: Standardizing the Management of Sidewalk and Kerb 2025-2050. In J.R. Vacca (Ed.) Published by Elsevier. [View/Download PDF]
Personal Delivery Robots (2022 Book Chapter, Grush)
How Will Cities Manage Multiple, Automated Logistics Fleets in Pedestrian Spaces? In 2020, Transport for London developed a set of baseline principles for pedestrian networks. These principles comprise...
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG. [View/Download PDF]
Footway Robots and BIAs
(2021 Conference Paper, Grush)
Can robots add value to downtown business districts? Retailers have been hit hard by e-commerce, box stores and COVID-19... How can public mobile robots help? (University of Guelph-Humber, 2021 Business Conference). [View/Download PDF]
Drafts of ISO 4448 for comment
01. Overview of Paradigm
TR 4448-1 describes the full suite and purpose for TS4448-2 to TS4448-20. It provides an outline and justification for each part, allowing the municipal or commercial implementer to determine which of the suite of parts will be important to their design, manufacturing, regulatory, or deployment task.
Last release date :
2023-05-16
02. Data Definitions
Describes terms and definition, including data definitions used throughout TS 4448. Data definitions include units, defaults and ranges where appropriate. Consistency throughout constrains development discipline, and makes integration among systems and across jurisdictions easier.
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q2
03. Communications and cybersecurity for public mobile robots
Describes the requisite communications and cybersecurity issues that must be considered. This includes what is necessary for secure and assured connectivity, location determination, teleoperation, IoT, recovery, and enforcement override.
Being combined with Parts 6, 9 - New outline to be released soon
04. Loading/unloading of goods and passengers at the kerb
Describes standard orchestration procedures to manage loading and unloading of passengers and goods. It orchestrates the endpoints of a trip with an electronic document called a LoadPlan that describes multiple features about “A” and “B”, related to queueing for spot use.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q2
05. Public mobile robot access on human pathways
Describes trip reservation and queueing for public mobile robots in public spaces (footway, bikeway, roadway and crosswalk). This standard for PMR orchestration includes the starting and ending points, as well as numerous behaviours in between.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q2
06. Integrating access to kerb and pathway
Describes the procedures and protocol for the case of vehicles constrained to the kerbside or other designated loading area to load and unload PMRs to move goods or passengers along public pathways that do not admit larger vehicles (for example transferring from truck/van into PMRs).
Being combined with Parts 3 and 9; new Part to be published soon
08. Public mobile robot-to-human communication signals
Describes the sounds, light, haptics, and gestural/motional displays for social communications between PMRs and proximate humans; including those with sight/hearing challenges.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q3
09. Suitability of infrastructure for automated loading / unloading
Describes the methods/metrics to determine whether a kerb (curb) on a block-face is suitable to a particular type or intensity of use of automated vehicles or devices.
Being combined with Parts 3 and 6; new version to be published soon
10. Suitability of pathway Infrastructure for public mobile robots
Describes the methods/metrics to determine whether a footway, bikeway, roadway or crosswalk segment is suitable to a particular type or intensity of PMR use.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q3
11. Environmental worthiness of public mobile robots
Describes the methods/metrics to determine extreme weather conditions for safe PMR operation (scaled to PMR capability).
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q4
12. Post-crash procedures for public mobile robots
Describes PMR crash clean-up, description and reporting.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q4
13. Mapping maintenance for public mobile robots
Describes mapping parameters such as resolution, update frequency, and error tolerances required for PMR TripPlans as developed in 4448-5.
Planned/Last release date : 2023-Q4
14. Personal assistant robots for tasks and goods movement
Describes standards for e-tethered robots such as personal “follow-me” PMRs that may carry loads for their owner. These would also apply to maintenance robots in “follow me” operation.
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q1
15. Personal assistant robots for human transport
Describes standards for small personal passenger robots such as wheelchairs or PMRs moving passengers within public facilities such as airports or hospitals
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q1
16. Safety and reliability for public mobile robots
Describes the physical, mechatronic, and operating safety for PMRs. This includes sensors, effectors, fire & chemical, hazardous goods – and more. Safety is organized into three categories: location safety, device safety, and safety for proximate humans
Last release date :
2023-01-25
17. Privacy and public mobile robots
Describes privacy guidelines for PMRs operating in public spaces.
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q2
18. Testing of public mobile robots
Describes testing guidelines for PMRs operating in public spaces.
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q2
19. Data from public mobile robots
Describes data capture, use, retention and sharing guidelines for PMRs operating in public spaces.
Planned/Last release date : 2024-Q2
