An Integrated Evaluation Approach for Performance and Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE), 2013
Author(s): | Zanardo G., Stanger T., Lang D., Del Re L. |
Year: | 2013 |
Abstract: | Cooperative mobility is emerging as a key technology
to improve energy efficiency, safety, and road capacity while
preserving a high degree of individual freedom. This has attracted
a large interest by industry and academia, largely focused on
vehicle safety applications, but also on fuel savings by enforcing
smoother traffic conditions. More recently, the potentially high
benefits in terms of fuel efficiency also for the single traffic participants
have been addressed. However, production maturity and
public acceptance of cooperative mobility can only be achieved
if safety, energy efficiency improvements and compatibility with
other traffic participants is demonstrated in a convincing way.
Traditionally, similar aims have been tackled using large fleet
tests. In the case of cooperative automated driving, the number
of use-cases and participants makes this procedure prohibitively
expensive. This paper proposes an integrated approach in which
a physical engine test bench, a high fidelity vehicle simulator
working online and a large scale traffic simulator are connected
to provide a representative and fast testing setup able to replace
large fleet testing. |