Adaptive Cooperation between Driver and Assistant System
Improving Road Safety
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eFuture—Safe and Efficient Electrical Vehicle
This paper presents the eFuture project that has been funded by the European Commission within the Framework 7—Green Cars Initiative. After a short presentation of the project and its objectives, the new vehic...
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Simplified Architecture by the Use of Decision Units
E/E architectures become more and more complex and thus hamper the introduction of new functions which in turn are essential for the development of electric vehicles. Consequently, new concepts are needed to e...
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Design of a Robust Plausibility Check for an Adaptive Vehicle Observer in an Electric Vehicle
With the increasing number and complexity of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and rising control facility by individual controllable drives in electric vehicles (EV) the reliability of sensor signals ...
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Concept summary and overview of the functionalities
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Requirements for the executive level
This first chapter is a short introduction into the engineering of the executive level presented in this part. Having defined the tasks of this platform, the choice of the methodology used supporting the model...
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Actuators and drive train architecture
The amount of different actuator topologies and their characteristics make the design evaluation validation of an architecture and above all the calibration of a virtual driver very challenging. Thus the use o...
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Performing the vehicle command
The execution level will receive from the command level a command in terms of acceleration and steering angle to realize. It will have to choose the right actuators to perform this command optimally. There is ...
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Agents derived from the robotic field
Different well-proven algorithms coming from the robotic field can be integrated in this place. On one hand a function based on a potential field method can define an optimum of command in order to avoid the s...
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Methodology of a fault-tolerant adaptive cooperation
This first chapter introduces the concept of adaptive cooperation and the required functionalities within the vehicle. After that, the safety aspects of this introduction is described to show which algorithms ...
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Determination of the driver drowsiness
The term drowsiness is used here to refer to the state of reduced alertness, usually accompanied by performance and psychophysiological changes, which may result in loss of alertness or being asleep at the wheel....
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Feedback management for the driver and the virtual driver
The huge importance of the feedback to support the driver has been shown previously over the last chapters. By giving the safety reserve of the vehicle, the driver can manage dangerous situation better and he/...
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Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system
The introduction of assistant systems has two main drawbacks. First the technological limit obviates the realization of full autonomous vehicles and makes mandatory the actions dangerous from the driver in com...
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General conclusion
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Road–tire μ friction coefficient estimation
This chapter will focus on the estimation of the μ-coefficient. This information will be used in another chapter to determine the maximal force which can be transformed into kinetic energy. After a short discu...
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Vehicle dynamics model
The vehicle dynamics model is based on models of the actuators and the dynamic model of the vehicle. Through online adaptation of the actuators maximal dynamics, their transfer functions will describe their be...
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Extended middleware for fault-tolerant architecture
In principle, there exist two different ways to develop a virtual driver. The first historical method was based on an expert system as presented by Tascillo in [124]. However, the more complex the problem is, ...
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Tactic agent for speedway/highway
Each time, the safety envelope is defined by the vehicle capacities. This information, which is continuously coming from the executive level, sets these limits directly. Furthermore the safety envelope can als...
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Understanding the driver maneuver
classification of the driver’s maneuver will be a fundamental element if the assistant system wants to give adequate advices to the driver. Thus this detection cannot afford neither false recognition nor impor...
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Cooperation at the command level
In this chapter only the three algorithms with the highest level of intelligence will be described: binary intervention, fuzzy substitution and adaptive cooperation. Actually the first method which is based on...
