Automated Driving Increases Safety Levels
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Automated Driving Increases Safety Levels The Electrics/Electronics 16 Architecture of the New
Stability Control for Driverless 26 Commercial Vehicles
MAN Truck Generation
Interview with Torsten Gollewski
Jonas Böttcher, Thomas Dieckmann,
Stefan Teuchert, Frederik Zohm
[ZF]
Klaus Plähn [ZF Group Commercial
[MAN]
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“From a technical perspective, 22 we’re ready to go”
Vehicle Control Systems]
With blaring sirens and flashing blue lights, a fire truck races along the highway. Far ahead of it, a semi-trailer truck pulls over in good time into the inside lane, freeing up the outside lane for the emergency vehicle. There is nothing apparently unusual in that, but the remarkable fact about the maneuver is that it was not carried out by the driver, but by the truck itself. Mercedes-Benz caused a sensation in 2014 with its Future Truck 2025, which had a range of automated driving functions. Six years have passed since then and many of the systems needed for autonomous driving have already reached a high standard of maturity. This is allowing developers to focus on details. While ABS systems can be used almost unchanged in driverless vehicles, the same is not true of electronic stability control functions, for example. This is because the directional and roll stabilization functions are based on the driver’s steering movements and not on the layout of the road ahead, which in the past the system knew nothing about. But nowadays it can tell what is coming. Experts are predicting that trucks will play a pioneering role in automated driving. However, the development of heavy-duty trucks in particular differs significantly in one way from the process for cars: The model cycles are very long. A new generation of trucks is only introduced every 15 to 20 years, and facelifts of existing models take place every six to eight years. For developers to meet the requirement for a future-proof generation of trucks, they need to take a new approach to the architecture, so that tomorrow’s technology can be integrated into the trucks of today.
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The high standard of maturity of automated systems referred to above is already reflected in the order books of automotive industry suppliers, as Torsten Gollewski from ZF explains. There is a growing demand for systems that will allow for automated driving on levels 4 and 5 in only a few years. Radar, lidar and camera systems are ready for use, and the latest central computers can manage even complex maneuvers. However, standardized legislation and infrastructures are needed to enable these systems to be used in normal or mixed traffic. Frank Jung
ATZ worldwide 09|2020
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