ATLAS is a project conceived by the Group of Automation and Robotics at Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The mission of the ATLAS project is to develop and enable the proliferation of advanced sensing and active systems designed for implementation in automobiles and affine platforms. Advanced active systems being improved, or newly developed, use raw input from vision, laser and other sensors. The ATLAS project has vast experience with autonomous navigation in controlled environments and is now evolving to deal with real road scenarios. To make certain that the developments are meeting the ATLAS project mission statement, a full sized prototype, the ATLASCAR 1, has been equipped with several state of the art sensors.