Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Harmonious and Safe Coordination of Vehicles with Diverse Human / Machine Autonomy

在可预见的未来，所有级别（1-5级，AV 1 -5）的人类驾驶车辆（HDV）和自动驾驶车辆（AV）可能会共享高速公路。车辆自主性的异质性和多样性的增加可能会危及高速公路上混合自主车辆之间的安全和谐互动，并对所有车辆的安全构成威胁。这可能会加剧已经日益增长和令人震惊的全国对交通安全的关注。该项目旨在通过引入一种新的CPS范式，将高速公路车辆与异构，变化和混合的人类/机器自主性和谐安全地集成在一起，来推进自动化，安全和运输的网络物理系统（CPS）研究领域的最新技术水平。通过合作研究，该项目可能会创建新的方法和工具，以提高异质车辆的公路驾驶安全性。这项工作的成果也可以扩展到推进其他CPS在制造，仓储，和医疗保健应用，其中人类和异构自主机器人之间的交互是普遍的，它们之间的安全协调是至关重要的。该项目旨在通过创建一个通用框架来解决公路运输中与异构自主车辆相关的新兴挑战，该框架可以增强AVs 1- 5个系统，使车辆在公路交通中安全和谐地融合。该研究团队将采用跨学科的研究方法来了解驾驶行为，评估其他HDV和AV 1 -5的个人感知安全性，并在高速公路交通场景中实现合作，分散的行为协调和可验证的安全控制。将进行人在回路驾驶模拟实验和缩放车辆交通系统实验，以调查和评估所开发的方法。将开展课程开发和研究生/本科生研究参与等教育活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and automated vehicles (AVs) of all levels (Level 1-5, AVs1-5) may share the highways in the long and foreseeable future. The increasing vehicle autonomy heterogeneity and diversity may jeopardize the safe and harmonious interaction among such vehicles with mixed autonomy on highways and pose a threat to the safety of all vehicles. This may exacerbate an already growing and alarming national concern on traffic safety. This project aims to advance the state of the art in the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research areas of Autonomy, Safety, and Transportation by ushering in a new CPS paradigm of harmonious and safe integration of highway vehicles with heterogeneous, varying, and mixed human / machine autonomy. Through collaborative research, the project may create new methods and tools to enhance the highway driving safety of heterogeneous vehicles. The outcomes of this work may also be extended to advance other CPS in manufacturing, warehousing, and healthcare applications where interaction among humans and heterogeneous autonomous robots is pervasive and safe coordination among them is critical.The project seeks to address the emerging challenges associated with vehicles of heterogeneous autonomy in highway transportation by creating a universal framework that can augment AVs1-5 systems to enable safe and harmonious integration of vehicles in highway traffic. The research team will use an interdisciplinary research approach to understand driving behaviors and assess individual perceived safety of other HDVs and AVs1-5, as well as to achieve cooperative, decentralized behavioral coordination and verifiably safe control in highway traffic scenarios. Human-in-the-loop driving simulation experiments and scaled vehicle-traffic system experiments will be conducted to investigate and evaluate the developed methods. Educational activities such as curriculum development and graduate/undergraduate student research participation will be conducted. Research dissemination and K-12 outreach activities will also be pursued to further increase the broader impact of the research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.