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CITY SAFETY - A SYSTEM ADDRESSING REAR-END COLLISIONS AT LOW SPEEDS   Active Rear-end collisions account for a substantial amount of crashes. The vast majority of rear-end collisions occur at speeds up to 30 km/h, mostly in city traffic. A common cause of these crashes is driver distraction. A rear-end collision might lead to soft-tissue neck injuries for the occupants in both vehicles involved, as well as material damages.

The Original Futurama   Active In the pilot of the animated comedy Futurama, the protagonist awakens from a millennium of cryogenic slumber to find himself in the year 3000. The first thing he hears is a portentous, booming voice: "Welcome...to the world of tomorrow!" The speaker is soon revealed to be a lab technician with a flair for the melodramatic

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century   Active This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes

Mapping with an Autonomous Car   Active Mapping with an Autonomous Car – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Association of unmanned vehicle Systems international   Active AUVSI keeps you up-to-date on the latest trends in the unmanned systems and robotics world. Read our publications Mission Critical and Unmanned Systems

The Center for Automotive Research at Stanford   Active CARS is the interdisciplinary automotive affiliates program at Stanford University. The vision of CARS is to create a community of faculty and students from a range of disciplines at Stanford with leading industry researchers to radically re-envision the automobile for unprecedented levels of safety, performance, sustainability, and enjoyment. Our mission is to discover, build, and deploy the critical ideas and innovations for the next generation of cars and drivers

Ohio State Center for Automotive Research   Active The Center for Automotive Research is an interdisciplinary research center in The Ohio State University College of Engineering. CAR research focuses on:

GM Collaborative Research Lab @ Carnegie Mellon University   Active $3 million collaborative lab at Carnegie Mellon University started its engine in 2000 to speed up research efforts on the next generation of vehicle information technology. In 2003, GM renewed their commitment to the university for an additional five years and $8 million. This partnership supplements GM initiatives to provide passengers safe and easy access to information and entertainment.

Autonomous/Automated Systems Intelligent Vehicle Systems   Active Sensor/computing/mobile technologies are currently being investigated and developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in an effort to augment vehicle platforms and provide autonomous vehicle and active safety capabilities. The platforms support a variety of missions and applications

Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (CAVR)   Active At the Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research we focus on advanced control research with heterogeneous and collaborative unmanned systems through thesis and dissertation research.

Vislab Extend your vision   Active VisLab is a spinoff company of the University of Parma; it is involved in basic and applied research, developing machine vision algorithms and intelligent systems for different applications, primarily for the the automotive field.

RITA - Intelligent Transportation System   Active DSRC: The Future of Safer Driving What is DSRC? DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) is a two-way short- to- medium-range wireless communications capability that permits very high data transmission critical in communications-based active safety applications. In Report and Order FCC-03-324, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated

Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems   Active The goal of the TC on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is to promote ITS applications within the Robotics and Automation Society and catalize the interaction between RAS and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. This is meaningful due to the variety of Robotics Technologies which are currently used in ITS. The committee will try to achieve these goals by organizing cross RAS-ITS events like journal special issues, workshops, conference special sessions etc. The TC will also try to promote international collaborations on this topic

Intelligent transportation system   Active Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are advanced appli­cations which, without embodying intelligence as such, aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of transport networks. Although ITS may refer to all modes of transport, EU Directive 2010/40/EU of 7 July 2010 on the

Intelligent vehicle technologies   Active Intelligent Vehicle Technologies telematics comprise electronic, electromechanical, and electromagnetic devices - usually silicon micromachined components operating in conjunction with computer controlled devices and radio transceivers to provide precision repeatability functions (such as in robotics artificial intelligence systems) emergency warning validation performance reconstruction

Velodyne compliments Google and NASCAR's self-driving racing car with its own autonomous monster truck   Active Velodyne founder and inventor, David Hall, announced today that he and the Velodyne team have taken the concept of the driverless car to the next level by developing a self-driving monster truck. "Our goal here is to take mayhem and destruction to a new level by taking the driver out of the equation - this is possible today with our technology," remarked Hall.

Intelligent Transport Systems in Europe: Opportunities for Future Research   Active This book provides valuable insight and critical appraisal of key areas of intelligent transport systems (ITS) for land transport in Europe. ITS is becoming increasingly important as the means to improving the efficiency, safety and comfort of the transport of people and goods while at the same time helping to minimize environmental damage and the contribution of transport to global warming. The material draws on

Driverless Car: Upcoming New Driving Force   Active

Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles: The Future is Now   Active Mission: to promote and support the unmanned systems community through communication, education and leadership

Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Vehicles at Volkswagen   Active Goal: Reproducible closed loop lateral vehicle dynamics evaluation • Arbitrary test vehicles equipped with steering control (approx. 50 cars tested up to now) • Vehicle follows a given trajectory

The 2013 IFAC Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Symposium   Active You are cordially invited to attend and contribute to the 8th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2013 that will take place in Brisbane, from 26 to 28 June 2013. This Symposium is the eighth of a series of IFAC-sponsored meetings in the field of Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles held on a triennial basis
June 26, 2013

The 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium   Active THE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV'13) is the premier annual forum sponsored by the IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY (ITSS).
June 23, 2013

International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems ICIUS   Active
October 22, 2012

ICIUS 2012 : International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems   Active The XXXIII. International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted
August 22, 2012

Driverless Car Summit 2012   Active Driverless Car Summit 2012 will be dedicated to understanding and working to solve the core challenges impacting driverless vehicle integration onto tomorrow's roadways. For two full days leaders from the robotics and automotive communities will converge in Detroit to participate in interactive discussion with their colleagues and counterparts with a common goal of making driverless cars a reality by 2022. The event will
June 12, 2012

2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium   Active THE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV'12) is the premier annual forum sponsored by the IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY (ITSS). Researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students from universities, industry, and government agencies are invited to discuss research and applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation. The technical presentations are characterized by a single session format so that all attendees remain in a single room for multilateral communications in an informal atmosphere. Tutorials will be offered
June 03, 2012

Google driverless car   Active The Google Driverless Car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View
May 26, 2012

IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Siemens the Car Maker   Active Audi, BWM, Mercedes and Volkswagen are names synonymous with German carmaking today. But what about Siemens, the Munich-based electrical and electronics giant, joining that line-up some day?
May 25, 2012

Ford Fusion's Incremental Steps Towards Driveless Cars   Active features a suite of driver assist technologies, which form the basis for the company’s research and development of future mobility solutions. They help further progress active safety technology that could lead to autonomous assisted driving in the long-term, which supports the theory that cars will take incremental steps towards being driverless instead of making a complete change
May 24, 2012

Smart Transportation   Active Navigation, driver assistance systems, Car-2-Car-communication, internet connection, active and passive safety equipment and comfort on the one hand as well as energy efficient transportation based on advanced propulsion systems and lightweight vehicles on the other hand are main challenges in the development of future car generations.
May 23, 2012

The Case for Driverless Cars - AUVSI   Active There was one curiosity in the publication, however. While it is in agreement with us that Driverless Cars will most likely be commercialized under a Transportation as a Service model (TaaS – thanks to reader Mohammad Poorsatep for coining the term! ),
May 14, 2012

Transforming Transportation through Connectivity   Active This report is a progress update for the U.S. DOT’s ITS Strategic Research Plan—2010-2014. In 2010, the Department established a focused research agenda to prepare the next generation of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies for widespread deployment throughout the Nation. This report describes the status of those research programs that are pursuing the most promising research for advancing transportation safety, mobility, and environmental performance.
May 01, 2012

Intelligent vehicle technologies   Active Intelligent Vehicle Technologies telematics comprise electronic, electromechanical, and electromagnetic devices - usually silicon micromachined components operating in conjunction with computer controlled devices and radio transceivers to provide precision repeatability functions (such as in robotics artificial intelligence systems) emergency warning validation performance reconstruction
April 26, 2012

Search and Classification Using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles: Decision ...   Active Search and Classification Using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles provides a comprehensive study of decision-making strategies for domain search and object classification using multiple autonomous vehicles (MAV) under both deterministic and probabilistic frameworks. It serves as a first discussion of the problem of effective resource allocation using MAV with sensing limitations
March 31, 2012

Future cars: The word from GM at IDC’s Smart Technology World conference   Active The very strange case of the broken dryer knobs—a case of very non-green design Perhaps you’re like me—you hate to see bad design that results in waste. Sometimes, it’s a design that uses too much energy. The waste heat seems disproportionate with the function performed. Sometimes, it’s another form of waste. It’s one of those cases that I want to address today and it has to do with a broken dryer knob. Actually, three broken dryer knobs to be exact.
March 12, 2012

Intersections of the Future: Using Fully Autonomous Vehicles   Active Artificial intelligence research is ushering in a new era of sophisticated, mass-market transportation technology. While computers can already fly a passenger jet better than a trained human pilot, people are still faced with the
February 18, 2012

Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society   Active Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well established and extensive international Transport and Society book series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration to the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only to draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile live, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined, theories and methods which contributors here are themselves developing and enhancing. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking 'transport' studies as such but are also recasting 'societal' studies as 'transport' comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science More »
January 01, 2012

Autonomous Car Navigates the Streets of Berlin   Active The CN-Lab (Cognitive Navigation) is developing the technology for route planning. It also is working on the technology needed to navigate a car in road traffic. The information from a digital road map must be added to data that is constantly being received from environmental sensors (GPS, cameras, laser sensors). The combined data enables the vehicle to proceed from point to point on a collision free path. The vehicle can maneuver through road traffic and effectively imitate human behavior.
September 20, 2011

Autonomous Ground Vehicles   Active In the near future, we will witness vehicles with the ability to provide drivers with several advanced safety and performance assistance features. Autonomous technology in ground vehicles will afford us capabilities like intersection collision warning, lane change warning, backup parking, parallel parking aids, and bus precision parking. Providing you with a practical understanding
August 01, 2011

How Intelligent Cars will make driving Easier and greener   Active A new generation of smarter-car technology is helping drivers — and cars — manage trips more efficiently, preventing gridlock, avoiding wrecks and ameliorating 5 p.m. road rage
July 18, 2011