I-Corps: Hard platooning device to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles

I-Corps：提高自动驾驶汽车安全性的硬编队装置

• 批准号: 2302177
• 负责人: Swaminathan Gopalswamy
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302177&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Hard; platooning; device; improve

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of automated transportation solutions that circumvent the typical issues of autonomy. In the proposed technology, a lead vehicle is operated by a human, and automated followers are physically tethered with the smart hard connect device. The proposed device simultaneously generates and transmits vehicle to vehicle information over a secure high-bandwidth wired connection. The transit bus and trucking industries, as well as the United States military, have the potential to benefit. Given the routine proximity to pedestrians and bicyclists, transit agencies have a unique requirement for safety and reliability. These stringent requirements prevent the widespread adoption of the traditional, untethered, fully autonomous transit vehicles. However, these requirements may be readily met by the proposed technology. In the trucking and logistics industries, massive labor shortages can be filled and the productivity of fleet operators increased, without any compromise on safety and reliability. Likewise, the United States military Leader-Follower operations, which uses traditional platooning, may be improved. This I-Corps project is based on the development of an automated vehicle following technology where the vehicles are physically connected. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to provide significant improvements in transportation safety, equity, efficiency, and environmental sustainability; however, widespread adoption has been plagued by safety and reliability questions related to unforeseen edge cases, inclement weather, and cybersecurity. In the proposed technology, a lead vehicle is operated by a human, and automated followers are physically tethered with the smart hard connect device. The proposed device simultaneously generates and transmits vehicle to vehicle information over a secure high-bandwidth wired connection. Thus, whichever path one vehicle can traverse, the entire platoon can traverse. Because the followers pull their own weight, the driver feels as if they are only operating one vehicle. The resultant knowledge advancement will not only support the proposed technology development, but also has the potential to answer fundamental questions in control theory, information theory, materials, and safety.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发自动化交通解决方案，以规避典型的自主问题。在所提出的技术中，引导车辆由人类操作，自动跟随者与智能硬连接设备物理连接。 所提出的设备通过安全的高带宽有线连接同时生成和传输车辆到车辆的信息。 公交巴士和卡车运输行业以及美国军方都有可能受益。由于经常靠近行人和骑自行车的人，交通机构对安全性和可靠性有独特的要求。这些严格的要求阻碍了传统的、不受束缚的、完全自动驾驶的交通车辆的广泛采用。然而，所提出的技术可以很容易地满足这些要求。在卡车运输和物流行业，可以填补大规模的劳动力短缺并提高车队运营商的生产力，而不会影响安全性和可靠性。同样，采用传统排兵方式的美国军事领导-跟随行动可能会得到改进。 该 I-Corps 项目基于自动车辆跟随技术的开发，其中车辆进行物理连接。自动驾驶汽车有潜力显着改善交通安全、公平、效率和环境可持续性；然而，广泛采用一直受到与不可预见的边缘情况、恶劣天气和网络安全相关的安全性和可靠性问题的困扰。 在所提出的技术中，引导车辆由人类操作，自动跟随者与智能硬连接设备物理连接。所提出的设备通过安全的高带宽有线连接同时生成和传输车辆到车辆的信息。因此，无论一辆车可以通过哪条路径，整个排都可以通过。因为跟随者拉动自己的重量，所以驾驶员感觉好像他们只操作一辆车。由此产生的知识进步不仅将支持拟议的技术开发，而且有可能回答控制理论、信息论、材料和安全方面的基本问题。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用评估结果被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。