Feb 12, 2020
On the way to autonomous driving: With accident and traffic observation data to the optimal test scenario
Already since the end of last year, the Chair of Automobile Engineering has been collecting traffic observation videos for selected places in Dresden in order to be able to study the real traffic situation better. Not only can environmental information (such as infrastructure and weather) be extracted from the videos, but also, for example, the speeds and accelerations of individual road users. For the latter the know-how of the video analysis provider DataFromSky is used. Currently, video recordings have already been made at six different locations in Dresden, either by means of stationary measurement technology or by drone. Further recordings with new high-resolution camera drones are planned for this year.
Since this year, this information can now be additionally merged with knowledge from the electronic accident record card (EUSKa) of the police. This contains anonymised information on every traffic accident in Saxony for which the police have been called, and currently contains approx. 1.7 million accidents since 2004. An exemplary application of the newly acquired knowledge is the reconstruction of a traffic accident, for which corresponding speed profiles from traffic observations can now be used. The reconstructed traffic accidents can then be used to generate test scenarios for the validation of automated driving functions. In this way, knowledge from yesterday's accidents and the analysis of today's traffic can be used to make tomorrow's traffic a little safer.
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NameMr Dipl.-Ing. Maximilian Bäumler MBA
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