| Title | Developments of ITS-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Improved Traffic Safety |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora, Dipl.-Ing. Dipl. Wirt.-Ing |
Abstract
“Safety is amongst the strategic objectives of today’s automotive industry. Although the absolute number of accidents and fatalities in traffic is continuously decreasing (at least in Europe), the relative risk for vulnerable road users (VRUs) increases, i.e. for pedestrians, cyclists, powered two wheelers, etc. Today’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are based on on-board environment perception sensors. Car2X communication technology enables a number of new use cases in order to improve driving safety or traffic efficiency and provide information or entertainment to the driver.
It is only shortly that predictive pedestrian protection systems (PPPS) can be used. These predictive systems use contact- or non-cooperative perception sensor systems for the detection of a pedestrian in the vicinity. They are limited by uncertainties in target classification. Moreover, these systems offer no benefit in case of fully or partially hidden pedestrians like e.g. children hidden by cars parked at the roadside. Cooperative pedestrian protection systems (CPPS) that follow the communication model of secondary surveillance radar from air traffic control overcome these weaknesses. Cooperative systems may be used alone or in conjunction with image-based systems. They may be seamlessly integrated into other upcoming car2X-communication systems.
The keynote describes the requirements and possible technologies, and gives an overview on the current status of research and development projects for ITS-based ADAS systems.As an example, the German research initiative Ko-FAS (Cooperative Driver Assistance Systems, http://www.kofas.de) with its different approaches will be presented.”
Biography
Dr. Axel Sikora holds a masters degree of Electrical Engineering and a masters degree of Business Administration, both from Aachen Technical University, Germany. He has done a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronics Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, with a thesis on SOI-technologies. After various positions in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry, he became a professor at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach in 1999. Since 2011, he holds the professorship of Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. He is guest lecturer at various other European Universities.
His major interest is in the field of wireless and wired connectivity of embedded systems. In his research group, algorithms and protocols for efficient, energy-aware, autonomous, and value-added networks are developed, simulated and implemented. Major application fields are traffic safety, smart metering/smart grid, telecare/telehealth and industrial.
Dr. Sikora is author, co-author, editor and co-editor of several textbooks and around 100 reviewed papers. Amongst other duties, he is member of the steering board of the annual Embedded World Conference, and head of the program committee of the European ZigBee Developers’ Conference.
