A real-time recursive dynamic model for vehicle driving simulators

A flexible application framework for distributed real time systems with applications in PC based driving simulators

For the research at the IZVW (Center for Traffic Sciences at the University of Würzburg) a driving simulator was build, that consists of 11 personal computers with a 180° front projection system, 3 rear projections and a 6-6 stewart platform. Also, three other driving simulators consisting of one, two and five personal computers are used at the IZVW for different experiments. One desired goal o...

COTS-Architecture with a Real-Time OS for a Self-Driving Miniature Vehicle

The international competition 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge significantly fostered the research and development on intelligent vehicles. Recent prototypes from Google for instance are able to drive fully autonomously through the San Francisco bay area for more than 450,000km. Even if self-driving vehicles are not yet available for purchase for customers, technology spin-offs are increasingly findi...

Real-Time Recursive Procedures

Into Driving Simulators

Around 55,000 people are killed each year in accidents throughout the European Community. Night-time driving with conventional headlamps is particularly unsafe: only 25% of the driving is done at night but 55% of the driving fatalities occur during this period. In order to reduce these figures, new automotive lighting technologies (Advanced Front Lighting System AFS) are about to be permitted i...

Real-time recursive procedures

The purpose of this paper is to show that recursive procedures can be used for implementing real-time applications without harm, if a few conditions are met. These conditions ensure that upper bounds for space and time requirements can be derived at compile time. Moreover they are simple enough such that many important recursive algorithms can be implemented, for example Mergesort or recursive ...

Using driving simulators to assess driving safety.

Changes in drivers, vehicles, and roadways pose substantial challenges to the transportation safety community. Crash records and naturalistic driving data are useful for examining the influence of past or existing technology on drivers, and the associations between risk factors and crashes. However, they are limited because causation cannot be established and technology not yet installed in pro...