Driver Support in Intelligent Autonomous Cruise Control

Résumé du livre

Abstract: "Intelligent cruise control is an important function developed for the next generation of cars [6]. This function includes both command signals sent to the throttle and brake units for velocity control, and useful information presented to the driver. Our research on this topic focuses on an Artificial Intelligence-based approach to the design of a Driver Information Unit (DIU) [2,3] in the context of an AICC (autonomous intelligent cruise control) test car. The system is able to provide the driver with accurate, reliable, necessary and sufficient, and timely support on the basis of uncertain and limited input information. The current version of the DIU implements a fixed reflexive behaviour, but the architecture readily allows more elaborate reasoning, planning and prediction tasks (in the artificial intelligence meaning of the terms) to be added. The DIU offers the interface possibility of communicating with the driver using several modalities (e.g. visual, aural or haptic channels). The information about the recognized traffic environment and the current status of the AICC system is presented to the driver taking into account his perceptual ability, his estimated workload, timeliness of information, status of the AICC system and, finally, his preferences."