The Navigation Aided Intelligent Cruise Control (N.A.I.C.C.) system acts in the field of the lateral and longitudinal control of a car. This paper only describes the lateral part of this new driver-aid system. Once the vehicle is located on the road, it determines the distance to the next bend and predicts a reference path to negotiate this bend considering the road profile, the vehicle charact...

This paper describes the potential of using vibro-tactile displays for automobile drivers. Technological developments in the field of driver support systems and tactile displays, combined with the ever increasing need to enlarge the capacity of the driver's information channel, form the reason to review the possibilities of in-car tactile displays and to identify some promising applications. In...

category: Control, navigation and planning This work is not in submission or press to any other conference. Abstract The demands of rapid response and the complexity of many environments make it diicult to decompose, tune and coordinate re-active behaviors while ensuring consistency. We hypothesize that complex behaviors should be decomposed into separate behaviors resident in separate networks...

Recent progress in the next generation of automobile technology is geared towards incorporating information technology into cars. Collectively called smart cars are bringing intelligence to cars that provides comfort, convenience and safety. A branch of smart cars is connected-car system. The key concept in connected-cars is the sharing of driving information among cars through decentralized ma...

The introduction of computing and communications technologies within cars raises a range of novel human-computer interaction (HCI) issues. In particular, it is critical to understand how user-interfaces within cars can best be designed to account for the severe physical, perceptual and cognitive constraints placed on users by the driving context. This article introduces the driving situation an...

The number of devices (in-car navigation systems, cell phones, email, web services, etc.) competing for a driver’s attention is increasing creating the need for controlling cognitive load. We present a system, the Persistent Conversational Assistant, which strives to reduce cognitive load by providing the user with an intelligent-seeming assistant. Intelligence on the assistant’s part can reduc...

The automobile industry has produced many cars with new features over the past decade. However, the interaction between the driver and the car has not changed significantly. The information being delivered – both in quantity and method – from the car to the driver has not seen the same improvements as there have been “under the hood.” This paper proposes immersing the driver inside an additiona...

The integration of more and more functionality into the human machine interface (HMI) of vehicles increases the complexity of device handling. Thus optimal use of different human sensory channels is an approach to simplify the interaction with in-car devices. This way the user convenience increases as much as distraction decreases. In this paper the gesture part of a multimodal system is descri...

The introduction of computing and communications technologies within cars raises a range of novel human-computer interaction (HCI) issues. In particular, it is critical to understand how user-interfaces within cars can best be designed to account for the severe physical, perceptual and cognitive constraints placed on users by the driving context. This chapter introduces the driving situation an...

Intelligent autonomous navigation in a large-scale and unknown indoor environment is an important problem in mobile robotics. For a car-like mobile robot with a racing car platform, the movement control concept is similar to that of a car. The autonomous features enable robots to control own motion without human interference. Three autonomous features are addressed in this thesis; obstacle avoi...