Autonomous Vehicle Research Project

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ABSTRACT
Autonomous vehicle industry is increasing rapidly and working for more development and advanced features in autonomous vehicles. Many automotive companies are working and performing different experiments in public traffic environments. But the problem will arise that how pedestrians will react with autonomous vehicles, and how pedestrians will understand the intentions of autonomous vehicles.
The purpose of the research project is that how pedestrian will intact and communicates with autonomous vehicles. Additionally the project included how the pedestrian will intact with vehicle by introducing an external communication interface.
The project relied on the observations and finding of the psychology department of TU Chemnitz that how …show more content…

Interaction of autonomous vehicle with pedestrians.
2. Safety and security of pedestrians.
3. To improve pedestrians understanding and feeling of comfort towards autonomous vehicles.
4. To develop a prototype that will communicate with pedestrian instead of driver.
1.2.1 Motivation
Road users/pedestrians and drivers communicate with each other in a complex manner like various skills and knowledge from childhood, traffic signals, different body gestures, social interactions and eye contact which is difficult to interpret for pedestrians to understand the intention of driverless cars in complex and dangerous situations.
The main focus of the research project is that when fully automated vehicles are introduced into market commercially, the pedestrians can easily communicate with the automated vehicles and understand the vehicle intentions without getting into dangerous situations. This required a prototype which can communicate with the pedestrians and take the advantage of the possibilities of self-driving vehicles.
The motivation of the project is to improve the communication, understanding and comfort level of pedestrians towards autonomous vehicles, so that pedestrians can make decisions that maximize freedom of moment in safest possible …show more content…

Phase 1 emphasis on the ideas and technology used by different research and development companies on pedestrian and autonomous vehicles communication.
2.1 Concepts from RISE (Research Institute of software evolution) & Viktoria Swedish ICT
RISE and Viktoria Swedish ICT have anticipated a number of ideas and concepts for possible communications prototypes for autonomous vehicles and pedestrian’s interaction. These concepts are used as key factor to the concept for this research project.
2.1.1 LED Grill
One of the concepts from RISE and Viktoria Swedish ICT is that front grill of the vehicle is equipped LED Matrix, that allow the car to display two dimension signals. This concept is also used by many other automobile companies. Different warning signal in two dimensions matrix which can be easily understand by pedestrians are implemented. The pedestrian can easily interpret the intention of the car and make the decision to pass by or to stop. Figure 2: LEDS in Grill
2.1.2 LED

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