Project "Automatisation Basse Vistesse" (ABV)
Description
Nowadays, the deployment of driver assistance systems tends to disengage the driver from safety tasks (emergency braking, ESP, ...) which requires quick actions (Citysafe de Volvo). In addition, at low speeds, a lot of accidents which do not involve high safety, are usually generating congestions, thus high time losses.
From a theory point of view, the benefits of perception and control systems have been shown for road congestion or road braking waves avoidance. They are also efficient in restarting the traffic flow.
In this context ABV proposes
* the design of perception functions and coupled longitudinal/lateral control
* the design of an experimental system which allows to study the driver disengagement in case of low speed speedway congestion.
A test vehicle with co-pilot integration three options:
1. Longitudinal control only (the driver controls the steering aspect)
2. Longitudinal control + warning message in case of lateral movement which may involve a lane change
3. Longitudinal control + lateral control (the driver is disengaged, conditionally to a speed under a predefined threshold and on a safe path. The latter can be composed of non-autonomous vehicles)
The project is composed of
1. The test car design
2. The identification of all the potential difficulties which may decrease the safety or the system efficiency, especially on the interaction with the driver during back-to-hand and hands-back phases.
3. The design of perception, planning, and control systems required for the good behavior of the safety system.
4. A simulation part which allows the identification of the global/social impact of the proposed system over the traffic flow and over the energy consumption.
5. The planning of a second project focused on experimentations in which a large number of drivers will help to validate the prototypes developed in ABV.
The term low speed refer to speed lower than 50km/h.
Concerned Members
- Michel BASSET
- Benjamin MOURLLION
- Oussama DERBEL
