Fostering Development, Evaluation, And Deployment Of Forward Crash Avoidance Systems (FOCAS), Final Report

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• Creators:
  Bareket, Z. ; Ervin, R. D. ; Mefford, M. ; Sayer, J. ; Johnson, G. ; Fancher, Paul
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Michigan. Transportation Research Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control Crash Avoidance Crash Avoidance Systems Cruise Control Drivers Highways I91: Vehicle Design And Safety Longitudinal Control Safety And Human Factors Vehicles And Equipment
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-HS-808-437
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Michigan
• Edition:
  Annual Research Report May 1994 to May 1995
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Abstract:
  This work is part of a three year program to foster the development, evaluation, and deployment of forward crash avoidance systems. The efforts during this first year have focused on operational testing of a passenger car equipped with a baseline autonomous intelligent cruise control system, also known as “adaptive cruise control” (ACC). To aid in evaluating and comparing ACC with other types of speed and headway control, on-road measurements have been made while driving using conventional cruise control, manual control (normal driving), as well as with the ACC system. The objective and subjective results obtained this year are from a population of 36 driver participants that was balanced for gender, age, and experience with cruise control. These results indicate that the baseline system operates well on U.S. freeways, and that the performance obtained with this system will be useful as a benchmark for comparison with the performance of future ACC systems. In general, most of the driver-participants liked driving with this baseline ACC system. Given that the results obtained with the baseline system are useful, there now exists an extensive database which contains new knowledge about driving and the intelligent control of vehicle dynamics. The report presents technical results and information that support preliminary conclusions and recommendations concerning: l simple design methods for speed and headway control l evaluation of system performance as a function of range, range rate and velocity - methods for evaluation of operational field experience - future studies aimed at obtaining improved results for ACC systems
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  UMTRI-95-31
• Collection(s):
  Autonomous Vehicles ITSJPO Digital Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf36de32e77a50578825abf2bf6fdd2eb1d74c3652a768d0e67a2c8d6e04d9736257cdc982cc38820113e8fc1acf621bc4d0068d36735d8d5818ebd9f10a9492
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2340/dot_2340_DS1.pdf
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