APALACI
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The PReVENT APALACI and COMPOSE sub-projects address different complex and challenging aspects that have to be tackled in the field of Collision Mitigation and Vulnerable Road Users protection by following complementary approaches and focuses in a joint work plan.
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APALACI focuses primarily on the protection of the vehicle occupants whereas COMPOSE mainly aims at the protection of road users outside the vehicle such as pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles.
Within the framework of PReVENT, APALACI and COMPOSE have a common work package on “System evaluation and assessment”.
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Advanced Pre-crash And LongitudinAl Collision mItigation system with pedestrian classification ability
APALACI is developing a system for advanced pre-crash and collision mitigation, including innovative sensor fusion techniques. The APALACI application is based on the detection of a collision event some instances before it occurs to improve the intervention of on-board systems and enhance the protection of car occupants, thus mitigating the severity of unavoidable crashes. In addition, a specific application of APALACI — namely Start Inhibit for trucks — prevents accidents at low speed by monitoring the frontal area close to the vehicle.
Enhance protection of car occupants by developing advanced pre-crash interventions:
- Improving the effectiveness of braking manoeuvres according to the detected collision scenario to mitigate the severity of unavoidable collisions
- Improving the control of restraint systems for pre-crash interventions Prevent low speed accidents with obstacles or pedestrians in the frontal area of trucks
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- Applications:
- different types of interventions are activated progressively according to the estimated time-tocollision,
namely collision mitigation (braking manoeuvres including the driver in the decision loop), improved pre-fire and pre-set control for restraints systems
- Start Inhibit function for trucks
- Detection ranges: from 0 to 50m in front of the equipped vehicle
- Obstacles: relevant objects detected are vehicles, infrastructure, fixed objects and vulnerable road users
- Sensor techniques : short and long-range radar sensors, laser scanner, mono/stereo camera and ultrasonicsensors are implemented and evaluated in different
combinations within the demonstrator vehicles
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Application of Results
The APALACI applications are demonstrated in different vehicles, integrating different functionalities and combinations of suitable sensors:
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Collision mitigation and pre-crash functionalities using radar and video systems
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Pre-fire application (pre-crash for reversible restraints) using radar and laser-scanner sensors.Pre-crash functionality, in terms of pre-set information for non-reversible restraint systems
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Pre-fire information and control for reversible restraint systems and the pedestrian detection/recognition functionality using radar and ultrasonic sensors
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Start Inhibit application for trucks including pedestrian detection capability
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- Laserscanner
- Ultrasonic sensors
- Medium-short range radars
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- Mono and stereo
- Short range radars
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| COMPOSE |
Exchange on functional requirements and joint work plan on evaluation |
| UseRCamS |
Testing of the UseRCams 3D camera |
| SASPENCE |
Integration between Collision Warning and semi-autonomous braking |
| LATERAL SAFE |
Common approach for the design of the in-vehicle system architecture,
integration in the same demonstrator of shared technologies, software modules and processing
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| ProFusion2 |
APALACI follows the ProFusion framework approach and represents a use case
for sensor data fusion algorithm improvements |
| RESPONSE 3 |
Use of the Code of Practice and safety checklist |
| INSAFES |
Pre-crash and collision mitigation functions integrated in INSAFES
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Exchange of information on relevant passive-active scenarios and testing
methods |
| FRICTION |
The system for the road fricton estimation will be integrated and tested in an APALACI CRF vehicle for collision mitigation |
Maurizio Miglietta
APALACI - Subproject Coordinator
Centro Ricerche Fiat
[email protected]
Subproject website
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