This topic aims to present the progress of lighting technologies in 4 themes.
A1. Status and future development of light sources
- Halogen: Progress on bulbs and optical systems
- Xenon: Cost efficiency, low consumption, Hg free, regulation
- LED: New progress on source and on headlamps. Impact on environment and cost, status of regulation
- OLEDs: Future possibilities in signaling and lighting
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A2. New lighting systems
- AFS: New developments with GPS and camera
- Night Vision: New development on techniques including ergonomics
- Adaptive light: high beam assistant, adaptive cut-off, adaptive driving beam.
- Affordable and attractive lighting systems for mass production, electric cars and emerging market
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A3. New signaling systems
- Contribution of signaling to safety
- ARS: Latest Advances on advanced rearlamp system. Status of regulation
- DRL: contribution of DRL to safety
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A4. Simulation and testing
- Simulation: New progresses to reduce development time and to improve reliability
- Testing: New progresses to improve reliability
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B - Driving assistance
This topic aims to discuss various and affordable driver assistance systems in order to improve front, side and rear driver perception.
B1. Enhanced visualization of the infrastructure
-The objective is to propose items such as road legibility, road signs, road markings, road surface, …, to improve lisibility of the infrastructure.
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B2. E copilot with situation awareness
B2a/ On board system
- The objective is to improve machine understanding of potentially dangerous situation.
- Possible items are related to onboard sensor technologies including computer vision architecture: radar, lidar, 3D sensors, camera, ultrasonic, fusion and signal processing for detection…
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B2b/ Cooperative systems
- The objective is to ease and to improve perception using communication technology.
- Possible items are related to telematics issues and data fusion.
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B3. HMI, Human Machine Interface
- The objective is to make the information understandable and intuitive to the driver.
B4. Technology
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C - Accidentology and Human Factors
This topic aims to bring insights into the visibility and vision problems related to road crashes.
C1. Vision, visibility as risk factors
- Driving task and accident mechanisms.
C2. Evaluation studies
- What is the effectiveness of counter-measures or technologies aimed at solving a vision or a visibility problem?
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