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Research/Project Description

SIM-TD
The SIM-TD project is a four-year, practical field test to be held in Germany’s Rhine-Main conurbation. The purpose of the field test is to equip and network vehicles and the transport infrastructure with communication units. By means of car communication units (CCU) and road side units (RSU), relevant information can be exchanged via an automated process that makes use of a WLAN link and UMTS standards. Consequently, personalized information, topical to within a few seconds, can be exchanged between road users and traffic control centers, and a useful contribution can be made to safe, intelligent mobility.

Under the four-year project SIM-TD a PKW-Flotte of up to 500 vehicles. In addition to its own test fleet will also use other vehicles, such Police, ambulance and fire brigade, as well as municipal vehicles and commercial vehicles such as taxis and vehicles with a service package of communications technology involved. The companies Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Opel, Ford, Audi, Bosch, Continental and Siemens are partners in the project, including three German ministries BMBF, BMWi and BMVBS.. In addition, Deutsche Telekom, the state of Hessen-represented by the Hesse State Office for Road and Transport, and the city of Frankfurt are Main project partners.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

  • Verband der Automobilindustrie

Contact

  • Eckehart Rotter, VDA, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Press and Public Relations
    Tel.: 0 69 - 9 75 07-2 66, Fax: 0 69 - 9 75 07-3 20

Time Frame

Four year project

Research/Project Description

EASIS
Electronic Architecture and System Engineering for Integrated Safety Systems EASIS contributes to increased road safety by developing a standardised, highly dependable in-vehicle electronic architecture for active, passive and integrated safety systems.

For the realization of Integrated Safety Systems, a powerful highly dependable in vehicle electronic architecture and an appropriate development support is mandatory. The goal of the EASIS project is to define and develop these enabling technologies:

  • A platform for software-based functionality in vehicle electronic systems will be defined, providing common services upon which future applications can be built.
  • A vehicle on-board electronic hardware infrastructure, which supports the requirements of integrated safety systems in a cost effective manner, will be specified.
  • Methods and techniques for the handling of critical dependability-related parts of the development lifecycle will be analysed, adapted, extended and defined.
  • An engineering process and a suitable tool chain will be defined, enabling the application of integrated safety systems.

EASIS is structured in several work packages, namely Integrated Safety Requirement (WP0), Software Architecture (WP1), Hardware Architecture, (WP2), System Dependability (WP3), Processes and Tools (WP4), Validation, Exploitation and Dissemination (WP5), and Project Coordination and Management (WP6).

An initial start-up of 6 months (WP0) is used to achieve a common basis of understanding and detailed description of the WP goals. Thereafter, the technical work will be conducted in parallel and close co-operation (WP1-4). In the last phase of the project the results will be validated by two different domain overlapping demonstrators: a telematics gateway and a commercial vehicle HIL testbench.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

  • DAIMLER AG GERMANY
  • ROBERT BOSCH GMBH GERMANY
  • CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG GERMANY
  • CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCA ITALY
  • DAF TRUCKS N.V. NETHERLANDS
  • DECOMSYS GMBH AUSTRIA
  • DSPACE GMBH GERMANY
  • ETAS GMBH & CO.KG GERMANY
  • LEAR AUTOMOTIVE (EEDS) SPAIN S.L. SPAIN
  • MIRA LIMITED
  • UK MOTOROLA GMBH GERMANY
  • KURATORIUM OFFIS E. V. GERMANY
  • ADAM OPEL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT GERMANY
  • PHILIPS GMBH FORSCHUNGSLABORATORIEN GERMANY
  • PEUGEOT CITROEN AUTOMOBILES SA FRANCE
  • REGIENOV FRANCE
  • UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN GERMANY
  • VALEO ELECTRONIQUE ET SYSTEMES DE LIAISON FRANCE
  • VECTOR INFORMATIK GMBH GERMANY
  • VOLVO TECHNOLOGY AB SWEDEN
  • ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG GERMANY

Contact

  • Dr. Vera Lauer, Organization: DaimlerChrysler AG, HPC T724, D-70546 Stuttgart
    Tel.:: +49 - (0)711 – 17 47128, Email: [email protected], http://www.easis.org

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/01/2004
Duration: 36 months
End Date: 31/12/2006

Research/Project Description

PReVENT
Preventive and Active Safety Applications B18 Preventive and active safety applications help drivers avoid or mitigate accidents through the use of in-vehicle systems which sense the nature and significance of the danger, while taking the driver’s state into account. PReVENT will develop, test and evaluate safety related applications, using advanced sensor and communication devices integrated into on-board systems for driver assistance.
Description of the work

The PReVENT Integrated Project has been organised around the following key vertical, application oriented safety function fields:

  • Safe Speed and Safe Following
  • Lateral Support and Driver Monitoring
  • Intersection Safety

Vulnerable Road Users and Collision Mitigation In addition, the following cross-functional activities have been identified:

  • Code of Practice for Development and Testing of ADAS
  • In-vehicle Digital Map aspects as interface to ADAS applications and map data sourcing and certification
  • Sensors & Sensor Data Fusion
  • Assessment of Applications

PReVENT consists of a set of eight vertical and three horizontal subprojects which started in February 2004. During the course of the project, new subprojects will be added to the programme. Finally, during PReVENT's 3rd phase, an IP Exhibition (PReVENT Roadshow) will be organised and all experimental platforms and test vehicles will be demonstrated publicly.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

Audi (Germany), BMW F+T (Germany), Centro Ricerche FIAT (Italy), DaimlerChrysler (Germany), Ford AG (Germany), Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen (Germany), PSA Peugeot Citroën (France), Regienov (France), Volvo Technology Corporation (Sweden), Volvo Car Corporation (Sweden), Volkswagen (Germany), Blaupunkt (Germany), Bosch (Germany), Delphi Delco (Germany), IBEO (Germany), Navteq (Netherlands), Philips (Germany), Siemens (Germany), Sagem (France), Siemens VDO (Germany), Siemens VDO Trading (Netherlands), Tele Atlas (Netherlands), TRW Conekt (United Kingdom), FCS Simulator Systems (Netherlands), Imita, Lewicki (Germany), Navigon (Germany), Transver (Germany),
ERTICO (Belgium), Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat (Netherlands), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany), Niedersaechsisches Ministerium fuer Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr (Germany), TNO (Netherlands), Transport Research Laboratory (United Kingdom), Cidaut (Spain), CNRS Idfe (France), Technische Universitaet Chemnitz (Germany), CERTH/HIT (Greece), Forgis (Germany), ICCS (Greece), INRIA (France), LCPC (France), Lunds Universitaet (Sweden), NTUA (Greece), Universitaet Hannover (Germany), Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy), Universita degli Studi di Trento (Italy), Universita degli Studi di Parma (Italy), Forwiss (Germany), IMC (Germany), INRETS (France), VTT (Finland)

Contact

Matthias Schulze, DaimlerChrysler AG, Tel: +49-7031-4389 603, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.prevent-ip.org

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/02/2004
Duration: 48 months
End Date: 31/01/2008

Research/Project Description

SmartWeb Project
A peer-to-peer network for vehicles on a road passing data back and forth. Proposed dashboard interface (voice and facial gesture activated)

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The SmartWeb project is being co-ordinated by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence but has 16 other partners including:

  • BMW
  • Siemens
  • Daimler Chrysler
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • European Media Lab.

Contact

Time Frame

2004 onwards

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