Objective
Objectives and content
Transport system safety is clearly one of the most
important social problems and involves a lot of items,
such as road, tire and vehicle design. Moreover, the
driving environment strongly influences the comfort,
stress, strain and reactions of the driver, so also his
quality of life.
The proposed activity faces the problem of transport
system safety implementing a new and global (but
detailed) model for the full road-tire-vehicle system
simulation: this model will be focused on the handling
behaviour prediction in potential dangerous situations
(presence of water, ice, snow, slush, suddenly friction
changing) in order to design systems able to prevent
danger. So far, more or less sophisticated vehicle
simulation models are already used by vehicle and tire
producers, but they are not completely integrated with
tire-road interaction models, so they do not properly
take into account the most dangerous conditions.
Moreover, these models are not physical yet, so they
can't give a concrete help to the system design. On the
contrary, the new model proposed with this research will
be physical: it means that the parameters will have a
physical background (they won't be a mathematical
interpolation only), in order to give a real help to
design a safe EU transport system. The activity includes
also a deep investigation of the driver reactions (also
with the aid of driving simulators) and the development
of a simple behaviour model, in order to verify the final
result of the full vehicle-road-tire system including the
driver as an integral part.
The research will be developed in tour directions:
Development and validation of a new road-tire-vehicle
simulation physical model. This activity will include the
development of sub-models concerning vehicle, friction
prediction, tire-pavement interaction.
Implementation of a real-time version of the
road/tire/vehicle model for driving simulators
applications
Improvement of simulation capabilities of the existing
driving simulators adding the behaviour in critical
conditions; this activity will help the assessment of
driver's behaviour and the development of a driver
behaviour model
Development of specifications in order to improve
friction measuring equipment in low adherence conditions.
The social and industrial benefits of such a research
outstand:
an integrated vehicle motion model allows to identify
and simulate a lot of dangerous situations without
experimental activity, in order to strongly reduce the
industrialising time.
in this way it is possible to define warning
coefficients for the already existing transport systems
and to implement observation units of the driving
environment, so dangerous situations can be communicated
to the driver.
the vehicle performance simulation in dangerous
conditions give concrete guide lines for the optimisation
of tire, road and vehicle design in order to improve
safety.
the simulation capabilities of the existing driving
simulators can be improved
-a deeper knowledge of the driver-s reactions allows to
develop transport system design in a new direction taking
into the comfort, stress, strain and safety of the
driver. In particular, new vehicle active control systems
will be developed with regard also to the driver's
reactions, filling in a serious gap of present design
trends.
-in this way it will be possible for EU industries to
trace directly the strongly increasing pressure from US
and Japanese competitors about car safety, one of the
most important features of the car product nowadays
perceived by the market.
The expected achievements can be summarised as a really
new approach towards safety and, possibly, towards
driver's reactions, stress, strain, comfort.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- social sciences sociology social issues
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Italy
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