SAFELANE

The SAFELANE is developping a lane keeping support system that operates safely and reliably in a wide range of adverse road and driving situations. If an unintentional lane departure is detected, an adaptive decision system triggers a driver warning or active steering system.

The flexible and modular approach of SAFELANE will be demonstrated in commercial and passenger vehicles on test tracks, motorways and rural roads. SAFELANE will utilize camera, digital map databases  and optionally forward looking active sensors (e.g. radar/lidar/laser).

Objectives

SAFELANE is developing, testing and validating the technology for a safe, reliable, highly available, acceptable and legally admissible on-board lane keeping support system for use in commercial and passenger vehicles on motorways and rural roads.

Key Concepts

SAFELANE development is based on the following key concepts:

• Fusion of camera-based lane detection with enhanced digital map data and precise vehicle trajectory calculation
• Adaptive and model-based decision system for situation understanding and advanced self-assessment
• Active steering component for haptic feedback and correction of steering

Application of Results

The demonstrators contain the relevant sensor, actuator and decision components developed or adapted in the project. The equipped vehicles serve for test and validation purposes and will be used for testing the functionality and performance of the developed system and for evaluation of the driver acceptance of the human-machine-interface.

SAFELANE will also participate in the IP PReVENT roadshow. The validation vehicles — two trucks and a passenger car — equipped with the lane keeping support system will demonstrate the quality of the lane keeping support developed in SAFELANE.

• IVECO Stralis demonstrator vehicle, truck
• Volvo Truck demonstrator vehicle, truck
• FhG demonstrator vehicle
• LCPC test vehicle, passenger car

Events and Milestones

SAFELANE comprises of five subworkpackages, of which the technically ones are organised in subsequent temporal phases. Each of the subworkpackages is concluded by a milestone.

M06:            SAFELANE System Specification

M06:            SAFELANE System Design

M10:            SAFELANE Project Presentation and Website

M18:            SAFELANE Midterm Assessment

M27:            SAFELANE Validation System

M30:            SAFELANE Validation Vehicles

M35:            SAFELANE Evaluation Results

M36:            SAFELANE Final Assessment and Dissemination

Consortium Partners

Volvo Technology AB
Centro Ricerche Fiat			Delphi
Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat			Fraunhofer Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme
Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées			Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen

Cooperation

LATERAL SAFE	Cooperation on multi-sensor platform
MAPS&ADAS	Enhancement of lane tracking capability by use of enhanced digital map data information
ProFusion	Utilisation of SAFELANE sensor data
RESPONSE 3	Evaluation of legal aspects by using RESPONSE 3’s checklist of SAFELANE system
INSAFES	Provision of SAFELANE HW and SW as basis for integration with other functions
	Provision of software module with basic SAFELANE functionality for EASIS validator
	Use of AIDE HMI interface and provision of haptic feedback and active steering functionality to AIDE

Contact Information

Volvo Technology AB

Achim Beutner

[email protected]

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