Description du projet
De nouvelles fréquences pour une meilleure assistance routière
Même le meilleur des conducteurs ne saurait éviter d’être un jour impliqué dans un accident, en particulier s’il est causé par le comportement soudain et dangereux de piétons, de cyclistes ou d’objets peu visibles sur la route. Les solutions technologiques existantes visant à améliorer la sécurité et l’assistance, comme les solutions optiques par caméra, les systèmes de détection et de télémétrie par la lumière (LiDAR) et les radars à haute fréquence, reposent uniquement sur des systèmes assurant une ligne de visibilité non perturbée sur les objets, ce qui ne permet pas de palier à tous les événements dangereux. Le projet DeepSight, financé par l’UE, remédiera à ce problème en mettant au point un système de détection innovant qui utilisera un radar à basse fréquence dont la résolution est conçue pour détecter les cyclistes, les piétons et les objets en dehors de la ligne de mire. Il assurera la sécurité routière et apportera une aide efficace aux conducteurs pour que ces derniers prennent les bonnes décisions.
Objectif
The number of road accidents continue to increase dramatically each year. Cyclists and pedestrians, being a part of the daily traffic, keep challenging drivers thus making safety issues increasingly important. Furthermore, miniature electrical vehicles, paving their way through traffic and being in many cases unseen by drivers, put themselves in danger. Improving driving safety, being always a subject to technological efforts, is one of the most important challenges of the modern society.
Continuously developing technologies offer a broad range of tools, capable to assist a driver in a decision making. Moreover, autonomous vehicles, nevertheless facing a broad range of challenges nowadays, will certainly sooner or later contribute to the endeavor. Optical camera solutions, LIDARs and high-frequency radars are already demonstrating exceptional assistance in driving safety by providing overlapping and complementary data. However, all existent safety systems require having an unperturbed line of sight to obstacles. This is a severe limitation, which cause those systems to overlook numerous dangerous events, including pedestrians, stepping on a road from behind a parked vehicle and many others.
MHz and lower GHz frequencies are known to penetrate material bodies and diffract around obstacles - e.g. we have a Wi-Fi signal in office, nevertheless the router is placed behind a wall in a corridor. However, low frequency waves are never used in automotive applications owing to low range and angular resolutions they can grant, as it is commonly believed. While this statement is almost a ground truth in the field, it can be bypassed if a preliminary information on an object does exist. This includes and not limited to rotating bicycle wheels, human breath, and several others. Here we will develop a low-frequency radar for detecting cyclist and pedestrians with a resolution, sufficient to ensure a road safety and assisting drivers to make right decisions.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG-LS - HORIZON Lump Sum GrantInstitution d’accueil
69978 Tel Aviv
Israël