Automated Driving in Inner Cities Moves a Step Closer
STADT:up: Chemnitz University of Technology is part of a consortium researching concepts and pilot applications for comfortable automated driving in urban areas
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Chemnitz University of Technology/Jacob Müller
The professorships of Applied Geropsychology and Cognition (Prof. Dr. Georg Jahn / Dr. Matthias Beggiato), Ergonomics and Innovation Management (Prof. Dr. Angelika Bullinger-Hoffmann), and Communications Engineering (Prof. Dr. Klaus Mößner) at Chemnitz University of Technology will be working intensively on automated driving in inner cities over the next three years. Chemnitz University of Technology is one of 22 partners from the automotive industry, suppliers as well as research institutions that are developing concepts and pilot applications for automated driving in urban areas as part of the project STADT:up (Solutions and Technologies for Automated Driving in Town: an urban mobility project). The total budget of the project is around 62.8 million euros, of which 33.5 million euros are being provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Around one million euros will go to Chemnitz University of Technology.
In the interdisciplinary network of the three professorships at Chemnitz University of Technology, competencies in the fields of psychology, ergonomics, and sensor data fusion are bundled in the Human Factors subproject of STADT:up to investigate comfortable automated driving. "By handing over the driving task to the vehicle, new comfort factors arise in automated driving, such as perceived safety, appropriateness of the driving style, or information about upcoming maneuvers of the vehicle," said Dr. Matthias Beggiato, researcher at the Professorship of Applied Geropsychology and Cognition. By user studies in a driving simulator and in a test vehicle, arising discomfort in urban traffic situations should be detected as early as possible and reduced by providing appropriate information and adapting the automated driving style. "The ultimate goal is to realize a pleasant automated driving experience in urban areas," says Beggiato.
Homepage of the STADT:up project: www.stadtup-online.de
For further information, please contact Dr. Matthias Beggiato, tel. +49 (0)371 531-38654, email matthias.beggiato@psychologie.tu-chemnitz.de
(Article: Mario Steinebach / Translation: Brent Benofsky)
Matthias Fejes
22.03.2023
