EAGER: Core Capabilities for Smart Cars

6辆汽车完成了最近的城市挑战赛，在城市街道上自动驾驶，这一事实清楚地表明，可以制造自动驾驶汽车来处理驾驶的复杂性。展示的技术尽管令人印象深刻，但需要显著增强，才能在现实世界中可靠地工作。由时刻保持警惕的网络物理系统控制的车辆可以显著减少事故和由此造成的死亡/伤害；弥补人为错误、分心或反应速度降低；减少在交通拥堵中花费的时间并改善交通流量；从而提高许多人口群体的生产力和独立性。然而，在开始广泛采用这些平台和技术之前，这些平台和技术必须被认为是强大的。这种热切的研究拨款使卡内基梅隆大学的研究团队能够与美国汽车行业进行直接和及时的互动，以探索在自动驾驶和高度自动化的车辆能够安全地部署在现实世界的驾驶情况之前必须克服的挑战。挑战包括(A)汽车内部的网络物理交互，如确保传感器、执行器、计算机、通信总线/网络、电力和布线接口的及时、安全和可靠的操作，需要可靠的实时网络物理平台；(B)汽车之间的实时通信，使用车辆到车辆(V2V)和车辆到基础设施(V2I)网络，以在必要时协调与其他车辆的行为，并获得/对有关交通或事故情况、红绿灯和标志的信息做出反应，(C)具有内置恢复和加强安全机制的安全行为，以处理不可预见的道路状况。该研究在传感器融合、动态目标检测/识别、不断变化的运行条件下的安全动态行为、车辆网络、联合网络物理系统建模、分析/仿真工具、动态地图构建、端到端资源管理以及安全关键的实时容错分布式网络物理平台等方面做出了贡献。

The fact that 6 vehicles completed a recent Urban Challenge competition, autonomous driving on city streets, clearly demonstrated that autonomous vehicles that can be built to deal with the complexities of driving. The technologies showcased, impressive as they were, need to be significantly enhanced to work dependably in the real world. Vehicles controlled by ever-vigilant cyber-physical systems can lead to significant declines in accidents and resulting deaths/injuries; compensate for human error, distraction, or reduced reaction rates; reduce hours spent in traffic congestion and improve traffic flow; and thereby increase productivity and independence for many segments of the population. However, these platforms and technologies must be deemed robust before widespread adoption can even begin to take place.This EAGER research grant enables a direct and timely interaction between the Carnegie Mellon University research team and the U.S. automotive industry to explore challenges that must be overcome before autonomous and highly-automated vehicles can be safely deployed in real-world driving situations. Challenges include (a) cyber-physical interactions inside the automobile such as ensuring the timely, safe and reliable operations of sensors, actuators, computers, communication buses/networks, electrical power, and cabling interfaces, necessitating a dependable, real-time cyber-physical platform, (b) real-time communications to/from the automobile, using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks to coordinate behaviors with other vehicles when necessary and to obtain/react to information about traffic or accident conditions, traffic lights, and signs, (c) safe behaviors with built-in recovery and safety-enhancement mechanisms to deal with unforeseen road conditions. The research pursues contributions in sensor fusion with dynamic object detection/recognition, safe dynamic behaviors under ever-changing operating conditions, vehicular networks, joint cyber-physical system modeling, analysis/simulation tools, dynamic map-building, end-to-end resource management, and safety-critical real-time fault-tolerant distributed cyber-physical platforms.