SYNCAR - Synchronized automated driving in urban areas
Project manager: Dipl.-Ing. Mario Krumnow
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Project duration: 09/2016 – 07/2019
TUD-internal project partners: Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften "Friedrich List": Professur für Fahrzeugmechatronik
External project partners: dresden elektronik verkehrstechnik GmbH, Fraunhofer-Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme, FSD Fahrzeugsystemdaten GmbH, FusionSystems GmbH, IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr, Preh Car Connect GmbH, TU Chemnitz
Brief description: In today's research and development on highly automated driving, the focus is on safety, driving comfort and energy consumption from the perspective of a single vehicle. In SYNCAR, this perspective will be expanded by developing novel solutions for predictive automated driving in coordination with other road users and traffic signal systems. This will also result in a novel form of optimization of the traffic process by providing specific driving recommendations (maneuver recommendations) for certain vehicle groups or even individual vehicles. To achieve this, new methods must be developed for processing environment information from the vehicle sensor system, for handling the communication processes between the vehicle and the environment, for operation and visualization in the vehicle, and for providing information on the infrastructure side.
The processes and functions in the vehicle and in the infrastructure on the route side that are developed within the scope of this project are to be implemented as prototypes and demonstrated in test drives, partly on non-public test fields and partly in real road traffic.
The Chair of Traffic Control Systems and Process Automation is examining, among other things, the approach of a highly automated vehicle to a traffic signal system from the perspective of traffic control. A method for traffic signal control is developed, which meets the safety requirements of highly automated driving as well as the demand for dynamic adaptation to traffic conditions and prioritization of public transport.
Funding: The project is supported by the European Union within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
