Objective: The Vision Zero initiative pursues the goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. Today’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are an important part of the strategy toward Vision Zero. In Germany in 2018 more than 26,000 people were killed or severely injured by traffic accidents on motorways and rural roads due to road accidents. Focusing on collision avoidance, a simulative evaluation can be the key to estimating the performance of state-of-the-art ADAS and identifying resulting potentials for system improvements and future systems. This project deals with the effectiveness assessment of a combination of ADAS for longitudinal and lateral intervention based on German accident data. Considered systems are adaptive cruise control (ACC), autonomous emergency braking (AEB), and lane keeping support (LKS). Methods: As an approach for benefit estimation of ADAS, the method of prospective effectiveness assessment is applied. Using the software rateEFFECT, a closed-loop simulation is performed on accident scenario data from the German In-Depth Accident Study (GIDAS) precrash matrix (PCM). To enable projection of results, the simulative assessment is amended with detailed single case studies of all treated cases without PCM data. Results: Three categories among today’s accidents on German rural roads and motorways are reported in this study: Green, grey, and white spots. Green spots identify accidents that can be avoided by state-of-the-art ADAS ACC, AEB, and LKS. Grey spots contain scenarios that require minor system modifications, such as reducing the activation speed or increasing the steering torque. Scenarios in the white category cannot be addressed by state-of-the-art ADAS. Thus, which situations demand future systems are shown. The proportions of green, grey, and white spots are determined related to the considered data set and projected to the entire GIDAS. Conclusions: This article describes a systematic approach for assessing the effectiveness of ADAS using GIDAS PCM data to be able to project results to Germany. The closed-loop simulation run in rateEFFECT covers ACC, AEB, and LKS as well as relevant sensors for environment recognition and actuators for longitudinal and lateral vehicle control. Identification of green spots evaluates safety benefits of state-of-the-art level 0–2 functions as a baseline for further system improvements to address grey spots. Knowing which accidents could be avoided by standard ADAS helps focus the evolution of future driving functions on white spots and thus aim for Vision Zero.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system uses vehicle’s on-board sensors such as radar, LIDAR, camera, infrared, etc. to detect the potential collisions, alert the driver and make safety braking decision to avoid a potential collision. Its limitation is that it requires clear line-of-sight to detect what is in front of the vehicle. Whereas, in current V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle communication) systems, vehicles communicate with each other over a wireless network and share information about their states. Thus the safety of a V2V system is limited to the vehicles with communication capabilities. Our idea is to integrate the complementary capabilities of V2V and AEB systems together to overcome the limitations of V2V and AEB systems. In a V2V-AEB system, vehicles exchange data about the objects information detected by their onboard sensors along with their locations, speeds, and movements. The object information detected by a vehicle and the information received through the V2V network is processed by the AEB system of the subject vehicle. If there is an imminent crash, the AEB system alerts the driver or applies the brake automatically in critical conditions to prevent the collision. To make V2V-AEB system advance, we have developed an intelligent heart Monitoring system and integrated it with the V2V-AEB system of the vehicle. The advancement of wearable and implantable sensors enables them to communicate driver’s health conditions with PC’s and handheld devices. Part of this thesis work concentrates on monitoring the driver’s heart status in real time by using fitness tracker. In the case of a critical health condition such as the cardiac arrest of a driver, the system informs the vehicle to take an appropriate operation decision and broadcast emergency messages over the V2V network. Thus making other vehicles and emergency services aware of the emergency condition, which can help a driver to get immediate medical attention and prevent accident casualties. To ensure that the effectiveness of the V2V-AEB system is not reduced by a time delay, it is necessary to study the effect of delay thoroughly and to handle them properly. One common practice to control the delayed vehicle trajectory information is to extrapolate trajectory to the current time. We have put forward a dynamic system that can help to reduce the effect of delay in different environments without extrapolating trajectory of the pedestrian. This method dynamically controls the AEB start braking time according to the estimated delay time in the scenario. This thesis also addresses the problem of communication overload caused by V2V-AEB system. If there are n vehicles in a V2V network and each vehicle detects m objects, the message density in the V2V network will be n*m. Processing these many messages by the receiving vehicle will take considerable computation power and cause a delay in making the braking decision. To prevent flooding of messages in V2V-AEB system, some approaches are suggested to reduce the number of messages in the V2V network that include not sending information of objects that do not cause a potential collision and grouping the object information in messages.

One central challenge for Autonomous Driving (AD) systems is ensuring functional safety. This is affected by all parts of vehicle automation systems: environment perception, decision making, and actuation. The AD system manages its activity towards achieving its goals to maintain in the safety domain, upon an environment using observation through sensors and consequent actuators. Therefore, this research investigates the operational safety for the AD system. In this research, a simulation for the Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system and a simple scenario are constructed on CARLA, an open-source simulator for autonomous driving systems, to investigate the factors that impact the performance of the AEB system. The time-series data that influence the AEB are collected and fed into three time-series analysis algorithms, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model (ARIMA), regression tree and Long short-term memory (LSTM), to select a suitable time-series algorithm to be used for the AEB system. The results show that weather, the measurement range of the sensors, and noise can affect the results of the AEB system. After comparing the performance of these three time-series algorithms through contrasting the recall and precision of these three algorithms to detect noise in the data, the results can be obtained that LSTM has the better performance for long-term analysis. And ARIMA is more suitable for short-term time-series analysis. LSTM is chosen to analyze the time-series data, since the long-term time-series analysis is necessary for the AEB system and it can detect the noise in the variables of the AEB system with better performance. / En central utmaning för AD system är att säkerställa funktionell säkerhet. Detta påverkas av alla delar av fordonsautomatiseringssystem: miljöuppfattning, beslutsfattande och aktivering. AD -systemet hanterar sin aktivitet för att uppnå sina mål att upprätthålla inom säkerhetsområdet, i en miljö som använder observation genom sensorer och därav följande ställdon. Därför undersöker denna forskning den operativa säkerheten för AD systemet. I denna forskning konstrueras en simulering för AEB -systemet och ett enkelt scenario på CARLA, en simulator med öppen källkod för autonoma körsystem, för att undersöka de faktorer som påverkar prestandan för AEB systemet. Tidsseriedata som påverkar AEB samlas in och matas in i tre tidsserieanalysalgoritmer, ARIMA, regressionsträd och LSTM, för att välja en lämplig tidsserie-algoritm som ska används för AEB systemet. Resultaten visar att väder, mätområdet för sensorerna och brus kan påverka resultaten av AEB systemet. Efter att ha jämfört prestandan för dessa tre tidsserie-algoritmer genom att kontrastera återkallelsen och precisionen för dessa tre algoritmer för att detektera brus i data kan resultaten erhållas att LSTM har bättre prestanda för långsiktig analys. Och ARIMA är mer lämpad för korttidsanalyser i tidsserier. LSTM väljs för att analysera tidsseriedata, eftersom långsiktig tidsserieanalys är nödvändig för AEB systemet och det kan detektera bruset i variablerna i AEB system med bättre prestanda.