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Project
Objective
The objective of the FRICTI@N
project is to create an on-board system for estimating friction and
road
slipperiness to enhance the performance of integrated and cooperative
safety
systems like vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and driver information.
Moreover, applications that can benefit from precise information on
road
slipperiness are driving safety control systems such as Slip Control
Systems,
Emergency Braking System, Electronic Stability Program, Adaptive Cruise
Control
and Roll-over Avoidance. It seems evident that a single sensor approach
is not
successful in determining road friction with a sufficient accuracy to
improve
vehicle control. The project will not develop new sensors, but uses
existing
ones in a novel way. The aim is a solution for real-time estimation of
the
tyre-road friction using a sensor cluster in a moving vehicle.
Consequently,
three kinds of sensors will be used: (i) existing in-vehicle sensors
for
vehicle dynamics, (ii) environmental sensors, and (iii) tyre-based
sensors.
Today, the signals from these sensors are used separately for vehicle
safety
systems without combining them. The project has two characteristics:
vertical
in developing a new system to enhance driver assistance, and horizontal
in
providing a system for different applications and for on-going projects
in
preventive safety and upcoming cooperative systems. The innovative idea
is to
feed the signals into a FRICTI@N-Estimation-Observer to estimate the
tyre-road
friction by using on-line mathematical methods. The consortium is
strong in the
proposed field comprising of 10 partners from automotive and supplier
industries including one SME and three research institutes. The
FRICTI@N project supports the
eSafety
initiative for the development, deployment and use of Intelligent
Integrated
Safety Systems in Europe.
Figure 1. Information to ADAS.
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Sixth Framework Programme,
FP6-2004-IST-4.
Continuation to FP5
Apollo project
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