A network assisted vehicle for ADAS and ITS testing

Rapid developments in technologies such as embedded devices, with increased processing capability, and sensor systems, with high accuracy and fast response, are enabling a wide range of new road traffic applications. These new systems and services promise significant improvements in areas such road safety, fuel economy and congestion management. In many cases the commercial deployment of these Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), or Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), is no longer limited by just technical or economic constraints. There are ethical, legal or certification issues that need to be resolved for wide scale deployment. In this paper we present the Network Assisted Vehicle (NAV) concept. NAV is a prototype semi-autonomous vehicle with a modular design that can be adapted to support new ADAS and ITS test standards. Vehicle costs are minimized by making full use of existing OEM systems on the vehicle and the known conditions of a controlled test environment (innovITS ADVANCE City Circuit test facility).