Research into ADAS with autonomous driving intelligence for future innovation

Abstract

This paper describes the ``Autonomous Driving Intelligence System to Enhance Safe and Secured Traffic Society for Elderly Drivers'' project which was adopted and started in 2010 as one of the technology innovation projects to vitalize ``aged society''. The project is sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). This project has been carried out based on the university and industry collaborative framework which is comprised of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), and the University of Tokyo, Toyota Central R{\&}D Laboratory, and Toyota Motor Corporation. The main purpose of this project is to realize an autonomous driving intelligence system embedding an experienced driver model to recover degraded performances of recognition, decision-making and operation for elderly drivers. The vehicle control concept proposed in this project will be penetrated into the market as advanced driver assistance systems, and the concept is applicable to autonomous driving system design for certain traffic circumstances in the near future. Current activities and research results gained from the project study are described in the paper.