Bernd Lichtenberg

Adaptive Cruise Control System Aspects and Development Trends

This paper describes focuses on adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems. It first describes the components of ACC systems, including their strengths and weaknesses. A system overview describes the basic structure and operation, control strategy, the driver-ACC interaction concept, and technical limits. Impacts on traffic flow, safety, and driver behavior are discussed. The paper concludes with a discussion on development trends for the next generation of ACC systems.

DRIVING COURSE PREDICTION USING DISTANCE SENSOR DATA

In this paper, the authors present two methods to predict a host vehicles trajectory based on measured and recorded position data from other vehicles. The quality of the projection is determined by the number of tracked vehicles, their number of lane changes, and the quality of the signals that are received from a distance sensor. It is not affected by changes of the host vehicle and the varying lane curvature. A second method analyzes each vehicles trajectory separately, extracts the corresponding parameters, and then assigns a quality. Based on these values, a statistical analysis calculates representative trajectory parameters to predict he host vehicles motion