Adaptive Cooperation Between Driver and Assistant System

One of the next challenges in vehicular technology field is to improve drastically the road safety. Current developments are focusing on both vehicle platform and diverse assistance systems. This book presents a new engineering approach based on lean vehicle architecture ready for the drive-by-wire technology. Based on a cognitive functionality split, execution and command levels are detailed. The execution level centralized over the stability control performs the motion vector coming from the command level. At this level the driver generates a motion vector which is continuously monitored by a virtual co-pilot. The integration of assistance systems in a safety relevant multi-agent system is presented here to provide first an adequate feedback to the driver to let him recover a dangerous situation. Robust strategies are also presented for the intervention phase once the command vehicle has to be optimized to stay within the safety envelope.

Part I New concept of cooperation.- Needs of improved assistant systems.- Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system.- Part II Executive level as vehicle platform.- Requirements for the executive level .- Road - tire u friction coefficient estimation.- Actuators and drive train architecture.- Vehicle dynamics model.- Performing the vehicle command.- Part III Virtual driver for the cooperation.- Extended middleware for fault tolerant architecture.- Agents derived from the robotic field.- Tactic agent for speedway / highway.- Part IV Adaptive cooperation.- Understanding the driver maneuver.- Determination of the driver drowsiness.- Cooperation at the command level .- Feedback management for the driver and the virtual driver.- Part V Discussion on the proposed concept.- Concept summary and overview of the functionalities.- General conclusion.