Links to EASIS related projects

EUCAR - European Council for Automotive R&D

To support the achievement of the highest efficiency, effectiveness and economy in R&D performance, the major European automakers have joined their efforts in the European Council for Automotive R&D - EUCAR.

IST - Information Society Technologies

European research activities are structured around consecutive four-year programmes, or so-called Framework Programmes. The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sets out the priorities - including the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority - for the period 2002-2006. This site provides essential information for participating in the IST priority.

EUCAR Integrated Safety Projects:

AIDE - Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface

The AIDE Part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, the AIDE Integrated Project plans to design, develop and validate a generic Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface (AIDE) that maximises the efficiency of individual and combined advanced driver assistance systems, reduces the level of workload and distraction and enables the potential benefits of new in-vehicle technologies and nomad devices.

APROSYS - Advanced PROtection Systems

APROSYS aims to offer a significant contribution to the reduction of road victims in Europe. In other words, the general objective of this Integrated Project (IP) is the development and introduction of critical technologies that improve passive safety for all European road users in all-relevant accident types and accident severities. APROSYS is therefore mobilising and integrating the necessary European scientific & technological expertise for the development of new technologies for the protection of road users in all relevant accident conditions. Furthermore, this IP aims to increase the level of competitiveness of the European industry by developing new safety technologies (safety is a proven selling point) and by developing design tools (CAD) and evaluation methods that will increase the efficiency of the development process of the involved industries.

GST - Global System for Telematics

GST is a major initiative mobilising more than 50 key stakeholders in the European telematics industry. It will provide the building blocks to carry out the transition from closed to open systems as this is the key to bring telematics functionality in all new vehicles and unlock the market for on-line services. GST seeks to establish this openness by further decoupling service development, service operation, delivery infrastructure, payment, in-vehicle software, in-vehicle hardware and in-vehicle networks. The project will tie together the existing results of European, national and corporate research programmes and progress the state-of-the art focusing on missing links for which enabling specifications and standardisation proposals will be developed.

PReVENT - Preventive Safety

Safety systems available today are mostly stand-alone on-board systems with a limited degree of interdependence. The development and the rapid dissemination of existing and new safety applications can only be achieved at competitive costs by:
       - defining safety function fields
       - integrating different in-vehicle systems
       - combining them with enhanced telematics into a complete network of so-called integrated safety
          systems.
PReVENT, as part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, contributes to these objectives. Preventive and Active Safety Applications will help drivers to avoid accidents, by sensing the nature and significance of imminent dangers, while taking the driving state and the driver status into account. Depending on the significance and timing of the danger, the systems will subsequently inform drivers as early as possible, warn them and if they do not react, actively assist or ultimately intervene.

A significant goal of the ProFusion 2 sub-project is to interact with third parties on a bilateral basis, in order to validate ProFusion results and gain feedback on the necessity of using sensor data fusion in multi-sensor environments for intelligent vehicles.
To serve this scope, ProFusion has just launched the Fusion Forum. Read the entire story:
http://prevent-ip.org/en/news_events/news/launch_fusion_forum_subscription.htm

Other related projects:

EAST - EEA - Electronics Architecture and Software Technologies
The EAST project was launched from middle 2001 to middle 2004 with the aim to develop a middleware based on current standard software modules. It has defined a standardized open software architecture framework, which enables a hardware-independent portability of software modules.
This EAST-middleware defined in the architecture framework offers services for transparent communication inside the classical vehicle domains as well as for cross-domain communication. Subsequently, some selected domain oriented approaches for the Body and Powertrain domains and the concept for the implementation of cross-domain services are described in EAST-project.
Beside the middleware and its services, a methodology for governing the system complexity in the design of distributed embedded control software is absolutely necessary. A central component of this methodology is the EAST-EEA-ADL (Architecture Description Language).

RESPONSE 2
RESPONSE 2 understands itself as an intermediate step from the 5th to 6th Framework Programme. Together with the ADASE 2 cluster project Response 2 prepares the ground for a big e-Europe initiative for market introduction of ADAS and, especially, active safety systems.

Other related activities:

AUTOSAR - Automotive Open System Architecture
The objective of the partnership is the establishment of an open standard for automotive E/E architecture. It will serve as a basic infrastructure for the management of functions within both future applications and standard software modules. The goals include the standardization of basic system functions and functional interfaces, the ability to integrate and transfer functions and to substantially improve software updates and upgrades over the vehicle lifetime. The AUTOSAR scope includes all vehicle domains.

INVENT - Intelligent traffic and user-oriented Technology
INVENT is a research initiative with the goal of making future traffic safer and more efficient. To this end, the partners are cooperating to develop novel driver assistance systems, information technologies, and solutions for efficient traffic management.

SPARC - Secure Propulsion using Advanced Redundant Control

SPARC is an EU project with the aim of substantially improving traffic safety and efficiency for heavy goods vehicles using intelligent x-by-wire technologies in the powertrain. To prove this standardized concept an automotive software/hardware platform will be developed that is scalable and usable from heavy goods vehicles down to small passenger cars (sPC) and be integrated therein. SPARC will propose a complete automotive concept of an open system architecture, where software functionalities of different partners can be integrated easily. Two validator vehicles of this architecture will be built and evaluated.

	Links to EASIS related projects EUCAR - European Council for Automotive R&D To support the achievement of the highest efficiency, effectiveness and economy in R&D performance, the major European automakers have joined their efforts in the European Council for Automotive R&D - EUCAR. IST - Information Society Technologies European research activities are structured around consecutive four-year programmes, or so-called Framework Programmes. The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sets out the priorities - including the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority - for the period 2002-2006. This site provides essential information for participating in the IST priority. EUCAR Integrated Safety Projects: AIDE - Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface The AIDE Part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, the AIDE Integrated Project plans to design, develop and validate a generic Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface (AIDE) that maximises the efficiency of individual and combined advanced driver assistance systems, reduces the level of workload and distraction and enables the potential benefits of new in-vehicle technologies and nomad devices. APROSYS - Advanced PROtection Systems APROSYS aims to offer a significant contribution to the reduction of road victims in Europe. In other words, the general objective of this Integrated Project (IP) is the development and introduction of critical technologies that improve passive safety for all European road users in all-relevant accident types and accident severities. APROSYS is therefore mobilising and integrating the necessary European scientific & technological expertise for the development of new technologies for the protection of road users in all relevant accident conditions. Furthermore, this IP aims to increase the level of competitiveness of the European industry by developing new safety technologies (safety is a proven selling point) and by developing design tools (CAD) and evaluation methods that will increase the efficiency of the development process of the involved industries. GST - Global System for Telematics GST is a major initiative mobilising more than 50 key stakeholders in the European telematics industry. It will provide the building blocks to carry out the transition from closed to open systems as this is the key to bring telematics functionality in all new vehicles and unlock the market for on-line services. GST seeks to establish this openness by further decoupling service development, service operation, delivery infrastructure, payment, in-vehicle software, in-vehicle hardware and in-vehicle networks. The project will tie together the existing results of European, national and corporate research programmes and progress the state-of-the art focusing on missing links for which enabling specifications and standardisation proposals will be developed. PReVENT - Preventive Safety Safety systems available today are mostly stand-alone on-board systems with a limited degree of interdependence. The development and the rapid dissemination of existing and new safety applications can only be achieved at competitive costs by: - defining safety function fields - integrating different in-vehicle systems - combining them with enhanced telematics into a complete network of so-called integrated safety systems. PReVENT, as part of the EUCAR Integrated Safety Programme, contributes to these objectives. Preventive and Active Safety Applications will help drivers to avoid accidents, by sensing the nature and significance of imminent dangers, while taking the driving state and the driver status into account. Depending on the significance and timing of the danger, the systems will subsequently inform drivers as early as possible, warn them and if they do not react, actively assist or ultimately intervene. A significant goal of the ProFusion 2 sub-project is to interact with third parties on a bilateral basis, in order to validate ProFusion results and gain feedback on the necessity of using sensor data fusion in multi-sensor environments for intelligent vehicles. To serve this scope, ProFusion has just launched the Fusion Forum. Read the entire story: http://prevent-ip.org/en/news_events/news/launch_fusion_forum_subscription.htm Other related projects: EAST - EEA - Electronics Architecture and Software Technologies The EAST project was launched from middle 2001 to middle 2004 with the aim to develop a middleware based on current standard software modules. It has defined a standardized open software architecture framework, which enables a hardware-independent portability of software modules. This EAST-middleware defined in the architecture framework offers services for transparent communication inside the classical vehicle domains as well as for cross-domain communication. Subsequently, some selected domain oriented approaches for the Body and Powertrain domains and the concept for the implementation of cross-domain services are described in EAST-project. Beside the middleware and its services, a methodology for governing the system complexity in the design of distributed embedded control software is absolutely necessary. A central component of this methodology is the EAST-EEA-ADL (Architecture Description Language). RESPONSE 2 RESPONSE 2 understands itself as an intermediate step from the 5th to 6th Framework Programme. Together with the ADASE 2 cluster project Response 2 prepares the ground for a big e-Europe initiative for market introduction of ADAS and, especially, active safety systems. Other related activities: AUTOSAR - Automotive Open System Architecture The objective of the partnership is the establishment of an open standard for automotive E/E architecture. It will serve as a basic infrastructure for the management of functions within both future applications and standard software modules. The goals include the standardization of basic system functions and functional interfaces, the ability to integrate and transfer functions and to substantially improve software updates and upgrades over the vehicle lifetime. The AUTOSAR scope includes all vehicle domains. INVENT - Intelligent traffic and user-oriented Technology INVENT is a research initiative with the goal of making future traffic safer and more efficient. To this end, the partners are cooperating to develop novel driver assistance systems, information technologies, and solutions for efficient traffic management. SPARC - Secure Propulsion using Advanced Redundant Control SPARC is an EU project with the aim of substantially improving traffic safety and efficiency for heavy goods vehicles using intelligent x-by-wire technologies in the powertrain. To prove this standardized concept an automotive software/hardware platform will be developed that is scalable and usable from heavy goods vehicles down to small passenger cars (sPC) and be integrated therein. SPARC will propose a complete automotive concept of an open system architecture, where software functionalities of different partners can be integrated easily. Two validator vehicles of this architecture will be built and evaluated.