Title :
The electronic copilot for an autonomous vehicle: design and first results
Author :
Ameling, Christian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng. Inst. of Autom., Univ. of the Fed. Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Deals with design and the first step in the development of an electronic copilot (ECP). ECP is used within an autonomous vehicle as a partially redundant system for vehicle control. The ECP gets the necessary information from various sensors such as a laser scanner or vision sensors. At the current state of development it is applied to automatic braking in case of emergency. The paper contains an outline of the concept for the ECP. The current stage of development and first experimental results are presented
Keywords :
accidents; automobiles; braking; image sensors; optical scanners; redundancy; safety; velocity control; automatic braking; autonomous vehicle; electronic copilot; laser scanner; partially redundant system; vehicle control; vision sensors; Control systems; Driver circuits; Humans; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Road accidents; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Vehicle driving; Vehicle safety; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4975-X
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.1999.821113
