The EU co-funded AutoNet2030 research project is starting in November 2013, and will run through October 2016. The aim of the project is to enable the introduction of more fail-safe yet cost effective automated driving technologies to make road traffic safer and more convenient. The 2030 part of the project title refers to the expected 2020-2030 deployment time span, when cooperative wireless communications will already have been available in the majority of vehicles.
Therefore, the project will investigate the complementing functionality between on-board sensors and 5.9 GHz 802.11p based cooperative wireless communications and demonstrate how these components can optimally work together in an advanced automated driving system. In particular, the project aims to demonstrate how the combination of cooperative wireless communications and on-board sensors will make lane-keeping, maneuvering negotiations and interaction between automated/manually driven vehicles more efficient and reliable. The prototyped cooperative automated driving system will be fully integrated into test vehicles and demonstrated on a test track. Using results from test driving measurements, the effect of scaling up to dense traffic scenarios will be investigated by computer simulations. The project will actively contribute to the ongoing standardization of 802.11p wireless technology based cooperative communications.
The AutoNet2030 project team is a consortium of 9 organizations: BroadBit (www.broadbit.com), BASELABS (www.baselabs.de), CRF (www.crf.it), ARMINES (www.armines.net), VOLVO Technology Corp. (www.volvo.com), Hitachi Europe Ltd. (www.hitachi-eu.com), EPFL (www.epfl.ch), ICCS (www.iccs.gr), and the Technical University of Dresden (www.tu-dresden.de).
The AutoNet2030 consortium is looking forward to contributing to the development and demonstration of fail-safe yet cost effective automated driving technology.
