This Project is driven by the vision that, in the short term future, Cybernetic Transport Systems (CTS) based on fully automated urban vehicles (the cybercars) will be seen on city roads and on new dedicated infrastructures. Such systems have been developed and evaluated in the scope of the CyberCars and CyberMove (www.cybermove.org) projects of the 5th FWP and are now being deployed.
However, presently these CTS can only operate in low demand environments where little interaction between vehicles is anticipated. In order for these systems to address high demands, more cooperation between vehicles is needed. This is the topic of this Project, based on vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure communications and vehicles coordination. We will address in particular the cooperation between vehicles running at close range (platooning) and at intersections (merging, crossing).
The Project will therefore enhance and enrich the existing Cybernetic Transport System concept. To this purpose, the Project will use already existing vehicles available at INRIA: eight cybercars which will be upgraded to use the new communication technologies and new control algorithms. Other cybercars available in Spain, China and in Australia will also be used for the project. On the other hand, CRF will use two available ADAS vehicles in order to transform them into dual-mode vehicles.
This research is closely linked to research on the cooperation between driver operated vehicles with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) to help the drivers in the improvement of safety and efficiency in the operation of their vehicles. Therefore, the project will keep close links to projects on drivers assistance systems based also on close range communication. As far as possible, the same technologies will be used for the communications and exchange of information such as the CALM architecture. The work in CyberCars-2, however, will focus on fully automated vehicles. We believe that some of the algorithms developed for the CTS, will be applicable for driving assistance when the control of the vehicle is taken away from the driver in case of improper action.
The transition between cybercars and ADAS vehicles will be made easier with the forecasted arrival of "dual-mode" vehicles which will offer an automatic mode in specific situations such as platooning and in specific locations such as automated parking lots and manual-assisted mode in regular situations.
Source: Project website
| participant | Organisation | country |
|---|---|---|
| Michel Parent | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique | France |
| Jan Van Dijke | Netherland Organization for Applied Scientific Research | Netherlands |
| Giancarlo Alessandretti | Centro Ricerche Fiat | Italy |
| Patrick Segeren | Frog Navigation Technologies | Netherlands |
| Damien Sallé | Robosoft SA | France |
| Lucia Isasi | Robotiker | Spain |
| Teresa De Pedro | Instituto de Automática Industrial | Spain |
| Paul Levi | University of Stuttgart | Germany |
| Jean-Laurent Franchineau | Eurolum | France |
| Ming Yang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| Ljubo Vlacic | Intelligent Control System Laboratory, Griffith University | Australia |
| Urbano Nunes | Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, University of Coimbra | Portugal |
