Description

Lecture on developments in advanced driver assistance - environment perception and cooperative driving - preceded by the general membership meeting of the Measurement, Control and Steering Technology Department. A sandwich meal will be provided.

Advanced Driver Assistance (ADA) refers to systems in cars that support the driver in performing his driving task in relation to his environment. Examples include Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Collision Warning and Lane Keeping. The functionality is relatively simple and replaces only a limited part of the driving task. That is different with the ADA systems that will see the commercial light in the medium term. These will increasingly be based on Environmental Perception (EP), perceiving, classifying and predicting road users in the vicinity of the vehicle and then initiating an autonomous action.

This presentation will focus on two of these new applications. The first focuses on vulnerable road users. Based on information from a multitude of environmental sensors such as radar, an image of the environment is built up and a probabilistic prediction is made regarding the path of pedestrians and cyclists in particular in the coming seconds. In this way, injury damage can be minimised or even prevented. The second application is Cooperative ACC (CACC), a system that extends the familiar ACC with vehicle-to-vehicle communication. It lets vehicles optimise not only their own behaviour
but also the traffic system, stretching road capacity and reducing
fuel consumption.

Both applications demonstrate that the driver's role is increasingly taking on a supervisory character, giving rise to the thesis that only when the driver is taken "out of the loop" does it become possible to optimise the traffic system with regard to efficiency, safety and fuel consumption.

18.45 - 19.15h ALV
19.30 - 21.00h Developments in advanced driver assistance

Speaker(s)

Jeroen Ploeg graduated in 1988 from TU Delft, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering section.
From 1989 to 1999, he was employed as a researcher and group leader at Koninklijke Hoogovens (currently Tata Steel Nederland), where he focused on model-based control design of industrial processes.

Since 1999, as a senior control engineer at TNO, he has focused on the development of Advanced Driver
Assistance systems and autonomous transport in close cooperation with TU Eindhoven, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics & Control Technology group. He is currently conducting a PhD research there in the field of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control under the supervision of Henk Nijmeijer

Location

KIVI-NIRIA building

Prinsessegracht 23, The Hague

Organiser

Measurement, Control and Steering Technology

Name and contact details for information

For questions, please contact the MRB department.

mrb@kiviniria.nl