07-12-2012, 05:55 PM
Smart Cars on Smart Roads
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INTELLIGENT VEHICLES AND ROADS
The current generation of vehicles is
already equipped with many different
kinds of sensors, CPUs, software systems,
and communication capacities. In
the next few years, active in- and outvehicle
environment sensing will become
standard, enabling intelligent
driver and passenger assistance and
increasing driving safety, efficiency, and
comfort. Eventually, road infrastructures
will also significantly change to
provide better sensing solutions (among
other benefits), but this will take more
time.
TRAVELING IN INTELLIGENT SPACES
Intelligent spaces are environments
that can continuously monitor what’s
happening in them, communicate with
their inhabitants and neighborhoods,
make related decisions, and act on these
decisions.
Embedding such intelligence in an
automobile would be a natural next step
for intelligent vehicles. Current in-vehicle
applications of GPS, ad hoc networks,
and sensor networks have already led the
way. Future cars will behave more like
intelligent agents traveling in intelligent
spaces. For example, traffic control at
intersections could employ cooperativedriving
technologies implemented over
ad hoc networks, instead of relying on
traffic lights. Researchers working on
such technologies aim for roads with zero
fatalities.
AGENT-BASED CONTROL
As connectivity becomes ubiquitous,
agent-based control offers an ideal approach
to transportation management,
addressing its geographically distributed
and alternately busy-idle operating characteristics.
Intelligent, autonomous agents
will traverse traffic control centers,
road intersections, highways, streets,
vehicles, houses, offices, and so on.
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INTELLIGENT VEHICLES AND ROADS
The current generation of vehicles is
already equipped with many different
kinds of sensors, CPUs, software systems,
and communication capacities. In
the next few years, active in- and outvehicle
environment sensing will become
standard, enabling intelligent
driver and passenger assistance and
increasing driving safety, efficiency, and
comfort. Eventually, road infrastructures
will also significantly change to
provide better sensing solutions (among
other benefits), but this will take more
time.
TRAVELING IN INTELLIGENT SPACES
Intelligent spaces are environments
that can continuously monitor what’s
happening in them, communicate with
their inhabitants and neighborhoods,
make related decisions, and act on these
decisions.
Embedding such intelligence in an
automobile would be a natural next step
for intelligent vehicles. Current in-vehicle
applications of GPS, ad hoc networks,
and sensor networks have already led the
way. Future cars will behave more like
intelligent agents traveling in intelligent
spaces. For example, traffic control at
intersections could employ cooperativedriving
technologies implemented over
ad hoc networks, instead of relying on
traffic lights. Researchers working on
such technologies aim for roads with zero
fatalities.
AGENT-BASED CONTROL
As connectivity becomes ubiquitous,
agent-based control offers an ideal approach
to transportation management,
addressing its geographically distributed
and alternately busy-idle operating characteristics.
Intelligent, autonomous agents
will traverse traffic control centers,
road intersections, highways, streets,
vehicles, houses, offices, and so on.