Section: New Results

ABV

Participants : Hao Li, Paulo Lopes Resende, Evangeline Pollard, Joshué Pérez Rastelli, Fawzi Nashashibi.

The ABV project builds on the HAVEit philosophy (a previous IMARA project for high speed automation) by offering higher levels of automation on highways and organizing the cooperation between human and system along novel automation levels. It differs from HAVEit by focusing on congested traffic at speeds below 50 km/h and adding fully automated driving to the automation spectrum. By automatically following congested traffic, the ABV system relieves the human driver from monotonous tasks. During fully automated driving, the human driver is not required to monitor the system, but has to take over control at the end of the application zone. Real experiments on a prototype vehicle have been conducted. The experiment objective was to realize several use-cases: lane following, changing of lane, overtaking, ACC and emergency braking. All these maneuvers have been successfully conducted several times on the Satory tracks (cf. [46] , [41] for more details) during the final event of the project which took place late March 2013.