Low Speed Automation, a French Initiative

Sébastien Glaser (1) , Maurice Cour (2) , Lydie Nouveliere (3) , Alain Lambert (4) , Fawzi Nashashibi (5) , Jean-Christophe Popieul (6) , Benjamin Mourllion (7)

1 IFSTTAR/COSYS/LIVIC - Laboratoire sur les Interactions Véhicules-Infrastructure-Conducteurs
2 Continental Automotive France [Toulouse]
3 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
4 IEF - Institut d'électronique fondamentale
5 IMARA - Informatique, Mathématiques et Automatique pour la Route Automatisée
6 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
7 MIPS - Modélisation, Intelligence, Processus et Système

Nowadays, vehicle safety is constantly increasing thanks to the improvement of vehicle passive and active safety. However, on a daily usage of the car, traffic jams remains a problem. With limited space for road infrastructure, automation of the driving task on specific situation seems to be a possible solution. The French project ABV, which stands for low speed automation, tries to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept and to prove the benefits. In this article, we describe the scientific background of the project and expected outputs.

Keywords: vehicle automation; shared control; environment sensing; data fusion

Domains: Mobile Computing; Robotics [cs.RO]

Sébastien Glaser, Maurice Cour, Lydie Nouveliere, Alain Lambert, Fawzi Nashashibi, et al.. Low Speed Automation, a French Initiative. TRA 2012 - Transport Research Arena Conference, Apr 2012, Athènes, Greece. ⟨hal-00767429⟩