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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"vehicle automation"”.
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Impacts of vehicle automation on traffic flow stability
… the possibility of a small number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) or partially autonomous vehicles that may soon be present on our roadways. This automation may take the form of fully autonomous vehicles without human intervention (Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE Level 5) or, as is already the …
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Application of hierarchy to STPA : a human factors study on vehicle automation
In a world where vehicle automation designed to remove "human error" is increasingly present on our roadways, are we actually safer? As we replace human tasks and decision making, the machines and the software used to substitute these actions become more complex. This increased complexity drives …
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The Effects of Vehicle Automation Level and Warning Type on Responses to Vehicle Hacking
<p>Modern surface transportation vehicles often include different levels of automation. Higher automation levels have the potential to impact surface transportation in unforeseen ways. For example, connected vehicles with higher levels of automation are at a higher risk for hacking attempts, …
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Automated Vehicles: A Guide for Planners and Policymakers
<p>Automated vehicles are those which are capable of sensing their environments in order to perform at least some aspects of the safety-critical control (like steering, throttling, or braking) without direct human input. As a guide for planners and policymakers, the objective of this thesis is to …
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Development and Testing Of The iCACC Intersection Controller For Automated Vehicles
Assuming that vehicle connectivity technology matures and connected vehicles hit the market, many of the running vehicles will be equipped with highly sophisticated sensors and communication hardware. Along with the goal of eliminating human distracted driving and increasing vehicle automation, it …
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Interaction between pedestrians and highly automated vehicles: effects of external human-machine interfaces and vehicle size
Pedestrians will interact with automated vehicles of higher automation levels on the road in forthcoming urban traffic. In highly automated vehicles, vehicle automation takes over the driving task, and the former human driver becomes a passenger. The challenge of introducing highly automated …
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VEHICLE DASHBOARD TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEMS AT A 4-WAY INTERSECTION
… others have learned to provide a solution in vehicle coordination that is smart, practical and innovative. We leverage the power of Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) to develop a Vehicle Traffic Dashboard Light System that can gather real- time traffic information to effectively coordinate …
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Driverless dreams : technological narratives and the shape of the automated car
… dominant and alternative paradigms of ground vehicle automation, and concludes that current and imagined automation technology is far more hybrid than is often recognized, presenting different questions about necessary or appropriate roles for human beings. Automated cars, popularly rendered …
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Connected and Automated Vehicle Enabled Traffic Intersection Control with Reinforcement Learning
Recent advancements in vehicle automation have led to a proliferation of studies in traffic control strategies for the next generation of land vehicles. Current traffic signal based intersection control methods have significant limitations on dealing with rapidly evolving mobility, connectivity and …
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A vehicle design and optimization model for on-demand aviation
… guaranteed. The optimization model consists of a vehicle, a sizing mission, a revenue-generating mission, and a deadhead (non-passenger-carrying) mission. Cost per trip, including the additional cost due to the deadhead mission, is used as the objective function. Vehicle noise is computed during …
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Possible futures for fully automated vehicles : using scenario planning and system dynamics to grapple with uncertainty
It is widely expected that fully automated vehicles (also commonly referred to as "driverless" or "self-driving" cars) will significantly change transportation systems in the United States and around the world. By reducing or eliminating many of the costs and disincentives of travel by automobile, …
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Using Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization on Problems in Vehicle Dynamics and Random Vibration Environmental Testing
… control methods to some challenging problems in vehicle automation and environmental testing.The first part of this dissertation presents the application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to control a vehicle to get unstuck from a ditch. A simulation model of a vehicle moving on an arbitrary ditch …
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Enabling safe, smart, and sustainable Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems with Artificial Intelligence
… urban environments. Concurrently, the rise in vehicle automation—from the basic SAE Level 1 features like adaptive cruise control (ACC) to the advanced SAE Level 5 fully automated vehicles devoid of human intervention—is reshaping the transportation sphere. However, challenges persist. While …