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FISITA World Congress 2023

Before leaving for summer break, we want to make a short announcement:

The FISITA World Congress 2023 will take place in Barcelona beginning on September 12th.

ANDATA will immediately open the first technical session on "Integrated safety, connected & automated driving" with a presentation on "Criticality estimation for connected, cooperative collision avoidance".

Ex ante some key issues:

👉 Within the project DIGEST we began to define fundaments for Digital Twins of the traffic infrastructure, containing information for improved driving decision in Cooperated, connected, Automated Driving, which we call the "CCAM Decision Support Platform".

👉 Cornerstone for information exchange and cooperation is the definition of a common language to express observations, intentions, capabilities, and ODDs.

👉 The project COPE (Collective Perception) showed how such information may look in a generic way to avoid collisions between any kind of traffic participants, especially for vulnerable road user protection.

👉 Within the project IntIntSec we will incorporate such into a holistic Digital Twin of an intelligent intersection, finding the best compromise between vehicle efficiency (saving energy), traffic efficiency (avoiding congestions), and safety (staying collision free).

We deliver the control algorithms and the underlying technological framework.

Eager to see you in Barcelona, paving the safe way to Vision Zero.

Publication of the Project Results from DIGEST - Digital Twin of the Road Traffic System

For 2 years the consortium of Logistikum from the Univerity of Applied Science Upper Austria, ANDATA, DLR, hitec, ARNDT IDC respectively consu developed a Digital Twin fo the Road Traffic System for ASFINAG, BASt and ASTRA.

Now the project results have been published as peer-reviewed IEEE journal paper:

Hereby a significant contribution for the safe and trustful exchange of information in

  • cooperative, connected, automated driving (CCAD),
  • traffic management,
  • asset management and predictive maintenance

in form of a CCAM Decision Support Plattform.

One of the main applications will be Infrastructure Support for Automated Driving (ISAD) with ODD awareness.

Conference Announcements Spring 2023

ANDATA will participate in the following conferences in spring 2023 and offer a presentation.

From 25.4. to 26.4.2023 the automotive CAE Grand Challenge of carhs will take place again this year. ANDATA provides a contribution to the topic

ODD Coverage in Development and Validation
of Automated, Connected Driving Functions

The main aim is to clarify the terminology and how these can be used to ensure the most effective development and validation of automated driving functions in scenario management.

From 13.6. to 15.6.2023 the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Expo will take place in Stuttgart. In the accompanying conference, ANDATA will give a presentation on the topic

Infrastructure Support for Automated Driving
with ODD-awareness by Digital Twins

The main focus is on the results and consequences of the two projects COPE - Collective Perception and DIGEST.

Project finalization of COPE and DIGEST

Looking back, 2022 has generally been an ambivalent year with respect to automated driving. On the positive side, one can notice the delivery of a major milestone in automotive history by Mercedes with the introduction of their DRIVE PILOT as a first system with level 3 automation. On the other side there was the downturn of ArgoAI with accompanying choral voices that this is the beginning of a trend rather than being a singular event.

Both were no surprises for us. Already quite a few years back we have identified major conceptional burdens for autonomous driving within the project WienZWA, which are beyond the intensively discussed technical issues of sensors, algorithms, use of AI, etc. Within the project Connecting Austria we have elaborated and investigated those in detail. One of our consequences is the strong believe that automated driving would significantly benefit from connectivity between vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructure, also taking infrastructure support for automated driving (ISAD) and ODD awareness for cooperative driving into consideration. This is especially true, if one wants to reduce the number of accidents and congestions to improve efficiency for energy savings and emission reduction.

Of course we carefully listened to the arguments and requirements of some OEMs and stakeholders, who prefer not to trust data from others but rely only on their own sensors and data sources. Within the project DIGEST we believe, that we delivered a major contribution to sharing information reliably in the future. Within the project COPE we took the first step in the direction of truly collaborative, distributed algorithms for collision avoidance.

Both projects ended in December 2022. The continuation and follow ups of DIGEST and COPE in 2023ff are already in the pipelines. Contact us, if you want to contribute (as organisation or person). In the meantime, we invite and encourage you to provide feedback on the public available DIGEST project result hot off the press.

#projectDIGEST #projectcope #digitaltwin #ccamdecisionsupportplattform #connecteddriving #ccam #collisionavidance #isad

Thanks to all the partners and supporters @ASFINAG, @BAST, @astra, @bmk, @ffg, @logistikum, @jr, @dlr, @walter, @sandra, @swarco, #attc, …

We keep on pushing even harder in 2023! Stay tuned, more to come soon!

Transport Research Arena 2022

ANDATA is taking part at the Transport Research Arena 2022 as exibitor on booth 2.07, organized by the Austria Chamber of Commerce.

Following topics will be presented by ANDATA:

 

Further details can be requested from info@andata.at.