Research and development needs for advanced vehicle control systems

Author

Shladover, Steven E.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

13

Issue

1

fYear

1993

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

19

Abstract

The technical issues that the Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) Committee of the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Society (IVHS) of America has identified as necessary to improve the performance of the surface transportation system are discussed. AVCSs represent the application of sensors, computers, and electromechanical actuators to provide drivers with warnings of hazards, assistance in controlling their vehicles, or fully automated control of vehicle motions. The constraints under which AVCS enabling technologies must be brought to maturity, such as cost, reliability, fault tolerance, and environmental hardening, combined with the basic performance requirements, are outlined. The enabling technologies for AVCS, subdivided into categories of sensors, communication, computation, electromechanical actuators, software and systems technologies, and special tools and facilities, are discussed. AVCS target products are reviewed.<>

Keywords

research initiatives; road traffic; road vehicles; traffic computer control; Intelligent Vehicle Highway Society; advanced vehicle control systems; computers; electromechanical actuators; environmental hardening; fault tolerance; fully automated control; hazards; sensors; surface transportation system; target products; Actuators; Automatic control; Automatic voltage control; Communication system control; Control systems; Electromechanical sensors; Intelligent vehicles; Motion control; Research and development; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/40.210521

Filename

210521