Safety concept for autonomous vehicles that operate in pedestrian areas

Kocsis, Mihai; Susmann, Nico; Buyer, Johannes; Zöllner, R.

doi:10.1109/sii.2017.8279327

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“…In research projects, according to the Vienna Convention, there is always a need for a supervisory driver for safety. For pedestrian areas, a concept and its implementation in real vehicles were published by the authors [40].…”

Section: Developing Of Autonomous Vehicles For Pedestrian Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interactive System for Package Delivery in Pedestrian Areas Using a Self-Developed Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles

2022

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In the context of automation and digitalization technologies and due to the existing trends of re-urbanization, autonomous vehicles for execution of services such as package delivery, transportation, vegetation care and street cleaning are considered innovative solutions. This paper presents a concept and implementation of a system developed to plan and deliver packages within pedestrian areas, using autonomous vehicles. The novelty of the system lies in the systematic view of this use case, which considers all stakeholder views from the CEP (courier, express, and parcel services) provider, traffic participants, and customers and where the technical and technological innovation is guided by interactivity with the users. This work outlines the design and integration of user interaction, the developed vehicles within the fleet designed for operating within pedestrian environments, and localization and navigation strategies. After the vehicles were approved and certified from a technical point of view to operate in pedestrian areas, the entire system was tested and evaluated in a new city district of Heilbronn with approximately 800 inhabitants. In the last six weeks of experiments, 572 packages were delivered in an autonomous way. The interactive way of planning and executing services on demand led, according to a market study in Heilbronn, to an increased acceptance of the users for autonomous package delivery services from 76% to 91%.

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Section: Developing Of Autonomous Vehicles For Pedestrian Areasmentioning

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“…In addition, it is noted that emergency switches were fitted in accessible positions. The safety concept and implementation are presented in [40]. The storage boxes for the packages, made of aluminum and weighing approximately 200 kg, were made available by RENZ.…”

Section: Autonomous Vehiclementioning

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“…As a series heavy commercial vehicle was used as the basis for the developed prototype, the systems theory-based approach presented uses concrete safety goals for functional components of the actuation system relying on extensive assumptions about the system structure. Several papers examine the safety concept design for driver assistance systems and automated vehicles with regard to functional strategies and effects on the functional architecture of the system under development, e.g., Hörwick and Siedersberger (2010); Binfet-Kull et al (1998); ; Kocsis et al (2017). These contributions commonly develop functional safety requirements; however, they do not comprise the results of the hazard analysis task.…”

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Functional Safety Concept Generation within the Process of Preliminary Design of Automated Driving Functions at the Example of an Unmanned Protective Vehicle

Graubohm¹,

Stolte²,

Bagschik³

et al. 2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Structuring the early design phase of automotive systems is an important part of efficient and successful development processes. Today, safety considerations (e.g., the safety life cycle of ISO 26262) significantly affect the course of development. Preliminary designs are expressed in functional system architectures, which are required to form safety concepts. Thus, mapping tasks and work products to a reference process during early design stages is an important part of structuring the system development. This contribution describes the systematic creation and notation of the functional safety concept within the concept phase of development of an unmanned protective vehicle within the research project aFAS. Different stages of preliminary design and dependencies between them are displayed by the work products created and used. The full set of functional safety requirements and an excerpt of the safety argument structure of the SAE level 4 application are presented.

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“…This holds also for people lying on the ground or small animals. After all, these are not imaginary but fully realistic situations; in case a collision occurs, the system has to be able to stop so that no injury occurs [18]. Next, sensors are used in the ISEAUTO project to observe the environment and for mapping, localisation and navigation:…”

Section: Vehicle Safetymentioning

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Development case study of the first estonian self-driving car, iseauto

Rassõlkin

Sell

Leier

2018

Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering

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The rapid development of intelligent control technology has also brought about changes in the automotive industry and led to development of autonomous or self-driving vehicles. To overcome traffic and environment issues, self-driving cars use a number of sensors for vision as well as a navigation system and actuators to control mechanical systems and computers to process the data. All these points make a self-driving car an interdisciplinary project that requires contribution from different fields. In our particular case, four different university departments and two companies are directly involved in the self-driving car project. The main aim of the paper is to discuss the challenges faced in the development of the first Estonian self-driving car. The project implementation time was 20 months and the project included four work packages: preliminary study, software development, body assembly and system tuning/testing of the self-driving car. This paper describes the development process stages and tasks that were distributed between the sub-teams. Moreover, the paper presents the technical and software solutions that were used to achieve the goal and presents a self-driving last mile bus called ISEAUTO. Special attention is paid to the discussion of safety challenges that a self-driving electrical car project can encounter. The main outcomes and future research possibilities are outlined

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Safety concept for autonomous vehicles that operate in pedestrian areas

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Interactive System for Package Delivery in Pedestrian Areas Using a Self-Developed Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles

Interactive System for Package Delivery in Pedestrian Areas Using a Self-Developed Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles

Functional Safety Concept Generation within the Process of Preliminary Design of Automated Driving Functions at the Example of an Unmanned Protective Vehicle

Development case study of the first estonian self-driving car, iseauto

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