Periodic Reporting for period 2 - interACT (Designing cooperative interaction of automated vehicles with other road users in mixed traffic environments)
Período documentado: 2018-11-01 hasta 2020-09-30
Develop social-psychological models to compile a catalogue of interactions, identifying the main communication needs of road users in current and future traffic Improve software algorithms and sensor capabilities for enhancing intention recognition and behaviour prediction of other road users
Develop a Cooperation and Communication Planning Unit to integrate planning algorithms, providing synchronized and integrated communication protocols Ensure safety of road users by developing easy-to-verify software for a safety layer, and novel methods for fail-safe trajectory planning Establish and refine evaluation methods for studying interaction of road user with AVs and user acceptance and assessing cooperation.
interACT developed prototypes that were demonstrated and evaluated in simulators and test vehicles, assessing ease-of-use, acceptance, safety and reliability. The project showed that the interACT solutions could help to improve safety and comprehensibility of the interaction of the AV with other road users and the on-board user.
Interaction Planning, Trajectory Planning and Safety Layer modules as well as the Scenarios’ digital catalogue. The software components were integrated in the interACT demonstrator vehicle to allow interaction with other road users. In parallel, we worked on the Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) solutions to govern the interaction of the AV with others. Based on the outcomes of the observational studies we derived generic interaction strategies and general HMI messages to enhance the cooperation and safe interaction of the AV. We developed two HMI hardware solutions, the 360° light-band and the directed signal lamp.
All newly developed software and hardware components were integrated into the two demonstrator vehicles. Several evaluation studies in simulators, on test track and as real-world study were conducted to evaluate the effects of the interACT solutions and the preparation of the evaluation studies. The modelling work and the evaluation studies showed the potential benefit of the interACT solutions with regards to safety, comprehensibility of interaction and traffic flow for the human- AV interaction.
For dissemination and exploitation several activities have been undertaken. interACT has a well perceived presence on the internet with a website, linkedin, twitter, facebook and has distributed e-newsletters during the project. Journal and conference papers have further raised awareness. interACT has also established a lively information exchange with its stakeholder group. In addition, interACT was engaged in the US-EC twinning with its US twinning project AVintent and is closely collaborating with Japanese partners from the SIP-Adus project. The project was also exchanging information with other projects in this area such as TrustVehicle, BRAVE, L3Pilot, inMotion, @City. For the further exploitation of the technical results interACT partners were actively engaged in the discussion of the related ISO, SAE, GTB Lighting standardization groups to ensure that the project results are taken into account.
Additionally, project partners delivered experimental setups and test regimes to assessthe quality of interaction and cooperation by simulator and real vehicle studies and defined quantitative and qualitative metrics to support these assessments regarding acceptability, efficiency and safety. interACT solutions were tested and showed the that they can significantly support the short-term introduction of AVs in mixed traffic environments. All project solutions could foster an increased societal acceptance of AVs via improving ease-of-use, road safety and traffic flow. Industrial project partners are enabled to fully exploit project findings, increasing the potential benefit, sale and adoption of AVs. With leading manufacturers such as BMW, BOSCH, CRF and HELLA on board, the project has the ability to ensure results are integrated at a fast pace, allowing Europe to remain at the forefront of this research.