CyberCars 2
Conducted in: 2005 – 2008
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 projects 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-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and vehicles coordination. It 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. For this purpose the project will use already existing cybercars available in France, Spain, China and Australia which will be upgraded to use the new communication technologies and control algorithms. At the same time CRF (Fiat Research Centre) 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.