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set up queues

Hi! I just downloaded all the files in Technology \ Communication Stack and I started looking at the code in the "kernel" of the file...

by: cinzia filippucci 14-06-2013 12:13:47

GCDC Commutation Stack INSTALLATION PROBLEMS

Dear all,

I have just downloaded GCDC source code and the Makefile inside "src/kernel" has no "install" target, as the manual provided suggests...

by: Ricardo Tubío-Pardavila 25-03-2013 14:45:11

Communications Fixing Diary

Sorry, as TNO failed to provide the stack as open source (though they promised to do so), the licensing issues around this repository became...

by: Holger Rapp 20-03-2013 09:28:42

Product list

We are not in this challenge. But we are very interested in implementing 802.11p on UNEX DCMA 86P2. Is there any help regarding linux driver for...

by: osman gani 15-03-2013 08:15:52

Communications Fixing Diary

Hi Dr. Holger.
Can you make your improvements available?
I tried at git://github.com/SirVer/GCDC.git but the repository no longer exists.

Best...

by: Paulo Sousa 26-02-2013 16:39:09

Challenging aspects of time-critical Cooperative Driving

This document provides a short overview of specific cooperative driving aspects that are explored by the
GCDC in 2011.

These aspects can be categorized into four parts:

deployment strategies
robust fail-safe real-time control
distributed real-time information structures
wireless communication in real-time environments.

Conclusions
In summary, although the enabling technologies are basically available today, a widespread deployment of real-time cooperative driving applications, such as platooning, still poses significant challenges with respect to reliability, fail-safety, scalability, and effectiveness at a low initial degree of penetration. Table 1 summarizes these aspects. Moreover, deployment will not happen overnight, creating an additional challenge regarding user benefits and the underlying business case. The GCDC aims to contribute to the large scale development and deployment of real-time cooperative driving applications by creating significant momentum, ultimately resulting in a common understanding and a unified approach to these applications.

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Theme	State of the art	Knowledge gaps
Deployment of ITS applications	Microscopic traffic simulation, used for the prediction of the required system penetration – minimum 20-50% – for a significant effect on the traffic flow.	Migration strategies for cooperative applications, in particular, dealing with the mix of instrumented and non-instrumented vehicles.
Control algorithms for longitudinal cooperative behavior	Control algorithms of homogeneous platoons primarily focusing on specific aspects (e.g. string stability).	Robust control algorithms capable of dealing with uncertainties in the behavior of other platoon participants, due to different algorithms or penetration degree of equipped vehicles.
Fail safety of cooperatively controlled systems	Control algorithms tend to focus on the nominal case.	Robust fail safe measures (including fault detection, isolation and recovery) for system failures (particularly wireless communication failures), taking into account dependability aspects (a.o. reliability, security).
World representation for intelligent vehicle systems	Control algorithms that directly use sensory signals to calculate control commands.	More structured control software to construct a world representation with a separate sensing and control layer, allowing for in-car interoperability of various components and sensing-layer independency of control algorithms.
Distributed information infrastructure for real-time representation of the traffic situation	Traffic situation represented by the traffic participants individually. If the representation is shared, it is in an ad hoc way.	A distributed world representation that structures large data flows, is updated real-time and broadly shared ((i.e. vehicles, traffic management centers, roadside controllers, etc.) and for which the maintenance load for the roadside infrastructure is reasonable.
ITS communication and networking architectures	There is a range of communication and networking architectures for various ITS applications, each with different bandwidth, latency, and security requirements.	The integration of the wide range of technologies in the vehicle and roadside infrastructure and the management between multiple interfaces.
Scalability of ITS applications	Relatively small scale ITS applications.	A sound vision and a global strategy with respect to large-scale deployment, being particularly relevant for safety-related applications.

GCDC news

TNO sleept met GCDC de iMobility award in de wacht

Op maandag 24 oktober zijn de iMobility awards uitgereikt. Het iMobility Forum reikte deze prijzen uit aan personen of teams die een bijzondere bijdrage leveren aan slimme en veilige oplossingen voor mobiliteitsvraagstukken. TNO deed goede zaken door met de Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) een iMobility award in de wacht te slepen.

GCDC nomination iMobility Awards

GCDC has been nominated for iMobility Awards.

GCDC Final: example heat

Illustrative example of one of the GCDC heats during the GCDC 2011.

GCDC Final: teams videos and final papers

Here you can find teams' final papers: their entry to GCDC 2011 and some beautifull videos

Xsens sponsors GCDC

Different teams from international universities join forces in a total of 11 teams to explore the boundaries of cooperative driving. Xsens has provided sponsorships to the Halmstad and Mekar teams,

Reuters' Reportage has been broadcasted on...

Reuters' Reportage has been broadcasted on various TV stations and and many more via internet.

VDI: (DE) Fahrerloses Fahren: Karlsruher Forscher siegen in Helmond

Team AnnieWAY heißt der Sieger der Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge, zu der sich am 15. Mai Forscher von elf europäischen Instituten im niederländischen Helmond trafen.

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Tech Business (dutch): Nieuw exportproduct: Filebestrijding

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cooperativecars: A blog on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Cooperative Cars is a blog on Intelligent Transportation systems.

KTH: SCOOP success at GCDC 2011

Smooth driving for the KTH/Scania Team! "We went through the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge in style. Our system delivered a consistently flawless performance and all the autonomous functions worked perfectly. Everyone is very, very happy," says Sagar Behere, one of the researchers leading the KTH/Scania team.

(LV) Pirmais Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2011 aizvadīts!

Svētdien, š.g. 15.maijā, aizvadīts pirmais Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) izaicinājums Helmondā, Nīderlandē, kurā piedalījās arī Latvijas Universitātes un Elektronikas un datorzinātņu institūta apvienotā komanda, tās sastāvā bija Leo Seļāvo (LU DF, EDI), Reinholds Zviedris (LU DF, EDI), Ģirts Strazdiņš (LU DF, EDI), Artis Mednis (LU DF, EDI), Andris Gordjušins (EDI), Georgijs Kanonirs (EDI) un Vadims Kurmis (EDI).