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Research/Project Description

I-way

Intelligent co-operative system in cars for road safety I-WAY designs, develops and validates an intelligent co-operative system that increases safety in road transport:

  • Improves traffic management control
  • Makes transport more efficient and more effective
  • Makes voyages more friendly and more comfortable for drivers and passengers

Description of the Work

The I-WAY platform aims to enhance driver's perception on road environment and improve his responses in time critical situations by providing real time information from other vehicles in the vicinity and from effectively located roadside equipment as well. The key feature that enhances I-WAY innovation is that refers to a co-operative system for road safety, where vehicles cooperate not only by receiving information from infrastructure but also by serving as scouts.

The main objective of I-WAY is to exploit the technological know how and thrust the scientific knowledge in order to integrate existing information sources and produce an interoperable toolset supporting both road-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication providing greater transport efficiency and increasing safety. More specifically, the I-WAY's driving platform will ubiquitously monitor and recognize the road environment and the driver's state in real time using data obtained from three types of sources:

  • The in vehicle sensing system
  • The road infrastructure
  • And the neighbouring cars

The i-way platform integrates several independent sub-systems that work in with, so as to provide the whole i-way functionality. It is composed of the in-vehicle subsystem and the external transport system. The in-vehicle subsystem consists of the following modules which are located in the interior of the vehicles:

  • The vehicle sensing module. It is responsible for the acquisition, processing and analysis of raw data coming from the onboard sensors.
  • The data acquisition module. It is responsible for the aggregation, combination and correlation of acquired information provided by the vehicle sensing module and by external sources.
  • The mobile interfaces of the vehicle. Through these interfaces drivers enter and receive significant information regarding accurate traffic jam estimations, weather conditions, the road shape, speed and distance from vehicles travelling ahead, etc.
  • The situation assessment module. Its purpose is to provide estimation of the road conditions based on prior knowledge and incoming transient information.
  • The communication module which handles the real-time exchange of data among the vehicles with each other and between a specific vehicle and the road management system.

The External Transport System which includes:

  • The Roadside equipment which is responsible for data acquisition referring to the road environment in locations where vehicles cannot precisely recognize dangerous conditions.
  • The Road Management System including an application and a database server which holds and manages the real-time road information.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The consortium consists of 14 partners:

  • ELESIA
  • LOQUENDO
  • UPM
  • IARD
  • DATABLUE
  • ABM
  • OHB
  • UoI
  • TWT
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO
  • SWORD
  • ERIM
  • GL2006
  • CRF

  • The project is coordinated by ELESIA S.p.A.

Contact

  • Michele de Feo, Ele.Si.A. SpA, Telephone: +39-0774-36531, E-mail: [email protected]
    www.iway-project.eu

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/02/2006
Duration: 36 months
End Date: 31/01/2009

Research/Project Description

SAFESPOT
Co-operative Systems for Road Safety “Smart Vehicles on Smart Roads” Autonomous vehicle based safety systems are limited by the field of view of their sensors. Cooperative systems using communication between vehicles (V2V) and in the infrastructure (V2I) via can considerably enhance this field of view, thus leading to a breakthrough for road safety. The objective is to prevent road accidents developing a “Safety Margin Assistant” that:

  • detects in advance potentially dangerous situations,
  • extends “in space and time” drivers’ awareness of the surrounding environment.

Main activities:

  • To develop the key enabling technologies
  • ad-hoc dynamic networking
  • accurate relative localisation
  • dynamic local traffic maps
  • To develop a new generation of infrastructurebased sensing techniques
  • To develop and test scenario-based applications in order to evaluate the technical aspects as well as the impacts and the end-user acceptance
  • To define the practical implementation of such systems
  • To evaluate the liability, regulations and standardisation issues which can affect the implementation

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The consortium includes 50 partners from 12 different European countries:

  • Italy, Germany, France, UK, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Hungary) among car makers, suppliers, road operators, service providers, universities and research institutes.
  • The project is coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat (I) and led by a Core Group consisting of Anas(I), Bosch(D), Cofiroute(F), Daimler Chrysler(D), Magneti Marelli(I), Renault(F), TNO (NL) and Volvo Technology Corporation(S).

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Time Frame

Start Date: 01/02/2006
Duration: 48 months
End Date: 31/12/2010

Research/Project Description

SAFETEL
Safe Electromagnetic Telecommunication on Vehicle SAFETEL aims at improving the design standards of equipment and systems in the atomotive world providing advanced tools for prediction, design and testing, in order to enhance the susceptibility hardening of motor vehicles against electromagnetic (EM) disturbances.

Objectives

SAFETEL takes into account the Commission Communication for Safe and Intelligent Vehicles COM(2003) 542. The application of the Project results will improve road safety and support competitiveness of the European automotive industry. Higher levels of safety than imposed by current standards for internal and external EM environments will be achieved. A simulation and test strategy will be defined and an advanced set of design tools will be provided in order to guarantee the proper functioning of the electronic equipment in the presence of new complex receivers and transmitters such as GPS, GSM, Bluetooth and Time Modulated Ultra Wideband. The Project therefore aims to pursue the following scientific and technological objectives:

  • to define the EM environment as a requirement for design;
  • to reach a quantitative definition of immunity safety margins;
  • to define EM hardening rules;
  • to define suitable test methods and procedures;
  • to design and demonstrate a HISS test setup;
  • to define and set-up a design environment devoted to rapid prototyping for vehicles;
  • to define a risk assessment model.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

  • SYSTEM DESIGN AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION S.R.L ITALY
  • CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT S.p.A. ITALY
  • UNIVERSITAT STUTTGART GERMANY
  • DAIMLER AG GERMANY
  • EM SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS GmbH GERMANY
  • TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY, Ltd. UNITED KINGDOM

Contact

  • Giovanni D'ANZIERI, SYSTEM DESIGN AND RESEARCH, ASSOCIATION S.R.L
    Tel.: +39-011-5069781, Fax. +39-011-0081015, Email: [email protected]
    http://www.safetel-project.com

Time Frame

Start Date: 01/01/2004
Duration: 30 months
End Date: 30/06/2006

Research/Project Description

WATCH-OVER

Vehicle-to-vulnerable road user cooperative communication and sensing technologies to improve transport safety WATCH-OVER will design and develop a cooperative system for the prevention of road accidents involving vulnerable road users in urban and extra-urban scenarios. The system will be adaptable to different users: vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians. The project will integrate information from in-vehicle sensor and communication technologies for reliable detection and positioning of vulnerable road users.
Key aspects are:

  • the selection, adaptation and integration of short range communication and sensing,
  • the development of high performance vision sensor technologies,
  • the development of a scalable cooperative system using best performing communication and vision sensor technologies that can be applied separately or in combination, depending on the user.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

The project is coordinated by Centro Ricerche FIAT (IT).

Project partners are: DaimlerChrysler AG (DE), Piaggio & C. S.p.A. (IT), Robert Bosch GmbH (DE), MIRA Limited (UK), Technische Universität Chemnitz (DE), ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH (AU), Centre for research and technology (EL), University of Stuttgart (DE), Steinbeis Research Institute Wireless Communications (DE), Faber Software S.r.l. (IT), LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (NL) and Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (IT).

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Time Frame

Start Date: 01/01/2006
Duration: 36 months
End Date: 31/12/2008

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