As part of the BayernLab Online lecture series, Dr. Nadja Schömig gave a lecture on 23.11. 2023 entitled "Automated driving from the driver's perspective". The lecture is now available online on YouTube. You can find the link here:
At the "Würtual Reality 2023" from April 11th to 13th, the WIVW presented the topic
The focus of the conference was research in the field of mixed reality in psychological, medical and application-oriented research. The aim was to connect researchers who work with Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (XR). The focus of the lecture was on the identification of pedestrian gestures using a VR environment, which can be used for future communication with automated vehicles. Further information about the conference can be found here.
EU regulation requires all new vehicles to be equipped with Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning (DDAW). Together with Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center, WIVW designed a test procedure for the type approval of DDAW systems including drowsy participants in real traffic while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. You can get early access to our practitioner paper here.
The aim of the project FE 82.0710/2018 “Corner Fear”, which was carried out by the Department of Automotive Engineering (FZD) of the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDA), the Würzburg Institute of Transportation Sciences GmbH (WIVW) and Auto Mobil Forschung Dresden GmbH (AMFD), was to analyse the leaning positions of motorcyclists in everyday life and in dangerous situations for a variety of riders. The existence of a so-called lean angle threshold could be confirmed. Future work should focus on how these results can be transferred in increased motorcycle rider safety. The full report can be downloaded free of charge here.
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In addition to the ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 standards, we follow the question catalogue of information security of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA ISA)
The TISAX® assessment was therefore carried out in December 2022 at the WIVW GmbH.
As TISAX® and TISAX® results are not intended for the general public, the result is exclusively available via the ENX portal: https://portal.enx.com/en-US/TISAX/tisaxassessmentresults/ (Scope-ID: SY8Z95, Assessment-ID: A3W1VW, Participant: WIVW GmbH (PC63XV))
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The WIVW presents four papers at the "8th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention", which takes place from 19th to 20th October 2022 in Gothenburg:
More information on the conference can be found here.
The BASt (the German Federal Highway Research Institute) has published a WIVW report on automatic emergency braking systems for motorbikes, which can be downloaded here free and is available with an English abstract:
The aim of the project “Autonomous emergency braking for motorcycles” was to determine the limits of the applicability of such systems. Besides the physical limits, it is also necessary to consider the limits determined by the rider capabilities. The rider is an integral part of the unstable rider-vehicle-system and needs to be able to control the intervention of an emergency braking system as otherwise destabilization or even a fall can occur. [...]
Studies were conducted, showing that with suitable autonomous braking interventions, the initial speed can almost be reduced to half before the rider even starts to apply the brakes. Simulator experiments showed that warning elements can have a positive influence on the rider reaction.
The WIVW is represented at the 14th International Motorcycle Conference, which takes place from 3rd to 4th October in the context of INTERMOT in Cologne with two contributions :
More information about the conference can be found here.
The WIVW published a new article in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour:
Within the first 50 days, the article can be downloaded here free of charge.
After several years of research and development, the IMAGinE project consortium (Intelligent Maneuver Automation – cooperative hazard avoidance in realtime) will present its results during a virtual final presentation on 12 May 2022.
Interested professional audience is also cordially invited to this event. Further information will follow shortly on www.imagine-online.de.
Since February 2022, WIVW is member of the scientific steering committee of the Institute for Motorcycle Safety (ifz), thereby supporting the biannual International Motorcycle Conference.
Additional information can be found here.
While driving simulators are a commonly used tool for a wide range of safety-relevant research topics in the passenger car sector, motorcycle riding simulators are currently less prevalent. In order to get an overview of possible applications of motorcycle simulators, a validation methodology for driving simulators was developed within the scope of the research project "Possible applications of motorcycle simulators" (BASt FE 82.0700/2018) in cooperation with FZD of the TU Darmstadt, which was tested on the static motorcycle simulator of the WIVW and the dynamic DESMORI motorcycle simulator of the WIVW.
The methodology makes the assumption that use-case-specific driving tasks of simulators can be broken down into smaller components, so-called minimum scenarios, and conversely, complex driving tasks can be reconstructed from minimum scenarios. Therefore, the two simulators were compared to two test motorcycles within two studies. In a first step, the minimum scenarios were investigated regarding parameters of riding dynamics, rider behavior, and rider workload. The second study investigated more complex, use-case-specific riding tasks under examination of the aforementioned parameters. The studies showed comparable simulator characteristics between the investigation of the minimum scenarios and the complex use-case-scenarios. Thus, the applicability of the developed method can be assumed, whereby the potential applications for a wide range of research questions can be assessed for the respective simulator.
The full report can be downloaded free of charge here.
The aim of the project FE 82.0710/2018 “Corner Fear”, which was carried out by the Department of Automotive Engineering (FZD) of the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDA), the Würzburg Institute of Transportation Sciences GmbH (WIVW) and Auto Mobil Forschung Dresden GmbH (AMFD), was to analyse the leaning positions of motorcyclists in everyday life and in dangerous situations for a variety of riders. The existence of a so-called lean angle threshold could be confirmed. Future work should focus on how these results can be transferred in increased motorcycle rider safety. The full report can be downloaded free of charge here.
From October 18-20 2021, WIVW joins the 7th Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention and presents the following topic:
The conference is held online this year; further information can be found here.
After four years of intense efforts, final results from the EU project L3 Pilot will be presented at the ITS World Congress 2021 in Hamburg on the 13th and 14th October. Besides on-road demonstration of automated driving functions on open roads in Hamburg, results will be presented. The WIVW will contribute four presentations:
Further information on the congress can be found here.
From September 14-17 2021, WIVW joins the DSC 2021 Europe VR and presents the following topic: Assessment of Human Machine Interfaces for Hazard Warning of Powered Two-Wheeler Riders.
More information on the event can be found here.
In the EU-funded L3Pilot project, WIVW has published a study on mobility impacts of highly automated driving in cooperation with VTT Technical Research Center of Finland in the peer-reviewed Transportation (Springer) journal. The publication with the title
is available here.
As a result of the works of the WIVW within the project EMotion, a peer-reviewed open access paper was published. The work entitled
is available in the special issue "Perspectives on the Role of Powered Two-Wheelers in Future Road Transport" of the journal Sustainability and is available here for free.
From June 9 - 23 2021, the WIVW participates in the Motorcyclists Safety Workshop: Riding in a Safe System. Organized by the International Transport Forum (OECD), the digital workshop aims to develop recommendations for action to increase motorcycle safety. Among others, the WIVW will be present in the expert session on "Motorcyclist Safety: Vehicle Safety, Protective Safety and Intelligent Transport Systems" with global road safety representatives.
More information on the event can be found here.
We are proud to announce that the SILAB version 7.0 is available to our customers as of now. The new version contains the following new features:
- The urban environment has been completely redesigned. Now, there are over 150 new buildings, each of which can be shown in 90 colour combinations.
- New road users are also included: streetcars, trailers and agricultural machinery, among others.
- The character set of all texts has been changed to the Unicode (UTF-8) - HMIs, signs and text overlays can now be displayed in most languages of the world.
- Besides the new import function for OpenStreetMap and OpenDrive compatible data, numerous simplifications to the operation of SILABAEdit make it easier than ever to design scenarios.
- A model for the structure of road surfaces has been added to the SCNX database. The model is consistent with the graphical representation of road textures and realistically simulates the effect on heights and friction coefficients.
- The road surface information is used by the new vehicle dynamics DPUDYNCar to enable the realistic simulation of vehicle driving dynamics even in the limit range. All components of the vehicle (tires, chassis, powertrain) are freely configurable and can be adapted to the target vehicle (small car, sedan, van, etc.).
- Custom DPUs can now also be created in Python. Users have full access to information from the database and traffic simulation.
- Optimizations in the visualization SGE allow displaying three full HD views (or 1x 4K) via a single simulator computer.
- And much more...
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