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At the current development stage, the lower airspace above urban areas is only used to a very limited extent. Recent developments in the drone industry are making this area more accessible with the possibility to set up so-called U-Spaces, where this area is controlled for manned and unmanned aerial participants. The leading use case for drone applications is currently seen in the medical sector. The relevance of the use of medical drones in urban areas and in which conditions the technology will bring specific advantages is still unclear.
Autonomous driving and traffic flow simulation requires a realistic and accurate representation of the environment. Therefore, this research focuses on the semantic segmentation of aerial images for simulation purposes. Initially, a dataset was created based on true orthophotos from 2019 and Kempten’s street cadaster, with true orthophotos being fully rectified aerial images. The chosen classes were oriented towards the subsequent conversion and usage in simulation. The proposed labeling workflow used cadaster data and demonstrated significant time efficiency compared to state-of-the-art datasets. Subsequently, a neural network was implemented that was trained and tested on the dataset. In addition, the network was also trained only on the lane markings to compare the network’s performance. Both cases demonstrated excellent segmentation results. The generalizability was then tested on true orthophotos from 2021. The results indicated a solid generalizability, but still needs to be improved. Finally, the aerial information was converted into a 3D environment, that can be used in simulations. Our results confirm the usage of aerial imagery and street cadaster data as a basis for the simulations.
The development of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) has the potential to revolutionize the transportation industry, but it also presents significant safety challenges. One of the key challenges is ensuring that the ADS is safe in the event of Foreseeable Misuse (FM) by the human driver. To address this challenge, a case study on simulation-based testing to mitigate FM by the driver using the driving simulator is presented. FM by the human driver refers to potential driving scenarios where the driver misinterprets the intended functionality of ADS, leading to hazardous behavior. Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) focuses on ensuring the absence of unreasonable risk resulting from hazardous behaviors related to functional insufficiencies caused by FM and performance limitations of sensors and machine learning-based algorithms for ADS. The simulation-based application of SOTIF to mitigate FM in ADS entails determining potential misuse scenarios, conducting simulation-based testing, and evaluating the effectiveness of measures dedicated to preventing or mitigating FM. The major contribution includes defining (i) test requirements for performing simulation-based testing of a potential misuse scenario, (ii) evaluation criteria in accordance with SOTIF requirements for implementing measures dedicated to preventing or mitigating FM, and (iii) approach to evaluate the effectiveness of the measures dedicated to preventing or mitigating FM. In conclusion, an exemplary case study incorporating driver-vehicle interface and driver interactions with ADS forming the basis for understanding the factors and causes contributing to FM is investigated. Furthermore, the test procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of the measures dedicated to preventing or mitigating FM by the driver is developed in this work.
Tourism is an important economic driver for numerous regions, at- tracting more than one billion visitors annually. While economically significant, excessive numbers of visitors lead to local overcrowding, which negatively im- pacts visitors’ experience and safety, and causes environmental harm. This paper proposes a practical approach to empowering destination management organiza- tions (DMOs) to manage tourist flows. We advocate for a rule-based approach that models visitor occupancy based on easily understandable influence factors like weather and date. As a central component, an ontology-guided knowledge graph ensures compatibility with diverse touristic data models and allows seam- less integration into existing infrastructures. By digitizing DMOs’ experiential knowledge, we facilitate the implementation of lean and cost-effective visitor guidance. We demonstrate our approach by implementing two applications for two different use cases. The results of our qualitative evaluation reveal the com- pelling potential for rule-based occupancy modeling approaches serving as a baseline for future visitor management systems.
Many cities in Europe and around the world are concerned with reducing their CO2-emissions. One step on this agenda is the introduction of electric buses to replace combustion engines. The electrification of urban buses requires an accurate prediction of the energy demand. In this pa per, an energy model and the underlying calibration process is presented. This approach leverages substantial tracking data from 10 electric buses operated in Göttingen, Germany. It was shown that, with the use of additional information from the directly measured tracking data, like auxiliary power, charging power and vehicle weight, it is possible to precisely calibrate models based on physical equations with regard to generally poorly identifiable parameters like rolling friction coefficient or efficiency of the electric machine. With a multilayered approach for simulating the energy demand, it is possible to validate the results on the mechanical layer and on the electrical layer separately. This enables a far better parametrization and elimination of uncertainties from the different parameters. Furthermore, we compare the results to other publications for sections with 1 km, 100 km and 230 km, respectively. The relative errors between the simulated and measured electrical power consumption are below 0.3%, 3% and 6.5%, respectively. Hence, the yielded model is appropriate for electric urban bus network planning applications. And the found parameters should be a good starting point for other energy prediction models. To further enable comparability with other approaches the dataset used for calibration is made publicly available.
In the early phase of new vehicle system developments, it is crucial to fully define and optimize working system and functional architectures. Architecture definition and validation in turn requires a quick and accurate evaluation of a system‟s overall performance. Modeling and simulating a complete vehicle system, however, is complex and in many cases was either technically not achievable or simply has been omitted within the development process. It is the utmost challenge in system modeling and simulation to realistically reflect interaction of various electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software elements as attributed to individual system modules and their relations. State-of-the-art tools meanwhile bear this capability. In this paper we present an approach how they may effectively and efficiently be incorporated into a car system development process. To accomplish this target, we „virtualize‟ all system entities while defining and reflecting all relevant system aspects. Our proposed development flow allows simulating, evaluating, and validating complete vehicle systems and their behavior. The proposed flow will sustainably change car system development processes.
Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) addresses sensor performance limitations and deep learning-based object detection insufficiencies to ensure the intended functionality of Automated Driving Systems (ADS). This paper presents a methodology examining the adaptability and performance evaluation of the 3D object detection methods on a LiDAR point cloud dataset generated by simulating a SOTIF-related Use Case. The major contributions of this paper include defining and modeling a SOTIF-related Use Case with 21 diverse weather conditions and generating a LiDAR point cloud dataset suitable for application of 3D object detection methods. The dataset consists of 547 frames, encompassing clear, cloudy, rainy weather conditions, corresponding to different times of the day, including noon, sunset, and night. Employing MMDetection3D and OpenPCDET toolkits, the performance of State-of-the-Art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods is evaluated and compared by testing the pre-trained Deep Lea rning (DL) models on the generated dataset using Average Precision (AP) and Recall metrics.
Driving simulators are used to test under reproducible conditions, however, they must be validated for each application. This guarantees that the gathered data on the simulator is representative of real vehicle data. This paper examines and compares objective data from 20 drivers that are recorded on a six degrees of freedom (DOF) high dynamic driving simulator and a passenger vehicle in the compact class on a proving ground. The purpose of this study is to investigate the comparability of the behavior of the subjects in their driving task on the driving simulator compared to the real driving test. The driving maneuvers include the 18 m slalom and an ISO double lane change (ISO 3888-2). The real car’s measurement setup is composed of an inertial measurement unit and access to the chassis CAN messages. The driving simulator is equipped with the same real electrical power steering as the test vehicle. Furthermore, a fully validated vehicle model is used in the simulation. Objective key performance indicators such as maximum steering wheel angle, steering wheel torque, lateral acceleration, yaw rate, and yaw gain deviate from around -18% to 10% in the slalom, with the majority of parameters not showing significant differences. Bigger differences are found for the double lane change. Overall, the results demonstrate a satisfactory degree of correlation between the driver behavior on the driving simulator and the real vehicle, even up to achieving absolute validity.
Comfort evaluation on a dynamic driving simulator with advanced tire, road and vehicle models
(2024)
The topics of automated driving and digitization are becoming increasingly im-portant and will shape the future of mobility. The potential of this technology is enormous. Concurrently, manufacturers want to continue to differentiate them-selves in driving characteristics typical of their brands. Rapid developments re-garding technological changes as well as legal regulations combined with short development times present new challenges for the entire automotive industry. In this context, virtualization and front-loading methods play a major role within the vehicle development. There has been a clear trend of pushing virtual devel-opment via simulation to reduce the number of necessary prototypes. Since however, both engineers and management still rely heavily on the crucial in-sights gained by real road tests, subjective closed-loop assessment must remain a part of this virtual process. Driving simulators have the potential to bridge these gaps, allowing engineers and test drivers to subjectively experience and assess new systems in an early virtual phase of development.
Kempten University of Applied Sciences is working with research and technol-ogy partners to research and further develop their dynamic driving simulator. With the goal to develop use-case specific methods for virtual vehicle develop-ment, the simulator’s novel motion platform is used specifically for research projects in areas requiring high dynamic performance such as vehicle dynamics and ride. This paper describes the methods and solutions developed in an R&D project investigating the simulator’s capabilities for ride comfort evaluation, such as primary & secondary ride. With the goal to enable experienced test drivers to perform a subjective ride evaluation in a very early development phase, the simulator’s real-time environment was extended with the highly so-phisticated tire model FTire. This paper provides an overview of the system’s performance regarding subjective ride assessment. It presents a brief insight into the detailed road modelling and describes the measures taken to ensure real-time capability of the individual model interfaces. Objective performance evaluation shows the benefit of this work for comfort evaluation in early phases of virtual development.