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A Fail-Safe Decision Architecture for CCAM Applications Open
In the context of Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM), precise ego-vehicle positioning and environmental status assessment are crucial. However, these tasks can be susceptible to sensor failures, misuse, and cyberattacks.…
Aggie Auto Shuttles: Technical Insights from the Public Road Demonstration Open
This paper explores the viability of automated shuttles for urban and suburban transportation through the Aggie Auto Shuttles pilot project conducted by researchers at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.…
A Fallback Localization Algorithm for Automated Vehicles Based on Object Detection and Tracking Open
Integrating Automated Vehicles (AVs) into everyday traffic is an ongoing challenge. Ensuring the safety of all involved agents, even in the presence of system failures, is crucial, especially in urban environments. This paper introduces a …
Fault Tolerance and Fallback Strategies in Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Review Open
Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are considered the future of transportation, offering increased safety, efficiency, and convenience. However, their reliance on sophisticated sensors and complex algorithms poses challenges, especi…
Receding horizon based collision avoidance for UAM aircraft at intersections Open
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging aviation sector which the goal is to transform air transportation with safe, on-demand air travel for both passengers and cargo. UAM flight planning strategically separates flows of aircraft on inter…
Decentralized Most Permissive Observer Architecture for Brake Leakage Diagnosis in Automotive Systems Open
Brake systems represent one of the most critical components contributing to the safety of modern automotive systems. They are commonly referenced as one of the most vehicle-related factors in fatal crashes. Usually, the faults in this type…
Sliding Mode Control for Robust Path Tracking of Automated Vehicles in Rural Environments Open
Achieving robust path tracking is essential for efficiently operating autonomous driving systems, particularly in unpredictable environments. This paper introduces a novel path-tracking control methodology utilizing a variable second-order…
Connected and Intelligent Framework for Vehicle Automation in Smart-Ports Open
The increase in maritime traffic due to the globalization of trade has led to an exponential growth in logistics operations and port traffic management is becoming increasingly complicated. The need to improve the efficiency, safety, and s…
Spanish approach for the Smart Digital Ports through highly automated logistics Open
Ground Vehicles (GVs) automation will change the paradigm of operation and mobility in ports as it is known today. One of the main aspects of the competitiveness of the companies is to obtain new technologies applied to port operations of …
Lateral-Acceleration-Based Vehicle-Models-Blending for Automated Driving Controllers Open
Model-based trajectory tracking has become a widely used technique for automated driving system applications. A critical design decision is the proper selection of a vehicle model that achieves the best trade-off between real-time capabili…
A Vehicle Simulation Model and Automated Driving Features Validation for Low-Speed High Automation Applications Open
The low-speed high automation (LSHA) is foreseen as a development path for new types of mobility, improving road safety and addressing transit problems in urban infrastructures. As these automation approaches are still in the development p…
A Fail-Operational Control Architecture Approach and Dead-Reckoning Strategy in Case of Positioning Failures Open
Presently, in the event of a failure in Automated Driving Systems, control architectures rely on hardware redundancies over software solutions to assure reliability or wait for human interaction in takeover requests to achieve a minimal ri…
A cascade steering shared controller with dual-level dynamic authority Open
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that consider the driver in the control loop (Shared Control ADAS) have the potential to influence upcoming functionalities in partially automated vehicles, improving the driving performance, reduc…
A Comparison Between Coupled and Decoupled Vehicle Motion Controllers Based on Prediction Models Open
In this work, a comparative study is carried out with two different predictive controllers that consider the longitudinal jerk and steering rate change as additional parameters, as additional parameters, so that comfort constraints can be …
Experimental Validation of a Kinematic Bicycle Model Predictive Control with Lateral Acceleration Consideration Open
Nowadays, Automated Driving has a growing interest in the scientific and industrial automotive community. The vehicle motion planning is an essential procedure to obtain safe and comfortable trajectories, adapting the longitudinal speed to…
Towards conformant models of automated electric vehicles Open
Automated driving is one of the major tendencies in last decades, and it is presented as a reliable option to improve comfort during driving, including disable and elder in society and increasing persons safety in roads. This last topic pr…
Urban Motion Planning Framework Based on N-Bézier Curves Considering Comfort and Safety Open
In last decades, great technology advances have been done related to the automotive sector, especially in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) developed to improve mobility in terms of comfort and safety during driving process; hence,…
Longitudinal Model Predictive Control with comfortable speed planner Open
Guaranteeing simplicity and safety is a real challenge of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), being these aspects necessary for the development of decision and control stages in highly automated vehicles. Considering that a human-ce…
Low Speed Longitudinal Control Algorithms for Automated Vehicles in Simulation and Real Platforms Open
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) acting over throttle and brake are already available in level 2 automated vehicles. In order to increase the level of automation new systems need to be tested in an extensive set of complex scenari…
A Speed Planner Approach Based On Bézier Curves Using Vehicle Dynamic Constrains and Passengers Comfort Open
This paper presents a speed profile generation approach for longitudinal control of automated vehicles, based on quintic Bézier curves. The described method aims to increase comfort level of passengers based on the ISO2631-1 specification,…