In the latest years, the automotive industry has quickly developed towards safer vehicles. Active safety such as adaptive cruise control, automatic brake systems and assisted road tracking are existing techniques used by most manufacturers. In the future the vehicles are moving towards even more technology in the cars since more functionality and faster and better data processing is constantly being developed. Data for these functions are captured using different types of sensors in the car.
Most existing techniques are currently quite inaccessible and expensive which means that vital safety features is limited to high end platforms. There is therefore a demand for cheaper techniques with similar performance. As one of the leading consultant companies in Sweden, AF wants to see if it is possible. They also want the developed techniques to be deployed to an electrical test vehicle, Figure 1.1, to gain experience and knowledge of how the algorithms can be implemented.