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Advanced Vehicle Navigation applied in the BMW Real Time Light Simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

J. P. Löwenau
Affiliation:
BMW AG Research, Munich, Germany
P. J. Th. Venhovens
Affiliation:
BMW AG Research, Munich, Germany
J. H. Bernasch
Affiliation:
BMW AG Research, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Advanced vehicle navigation based on the US Global Positioning Systems (GPS) will play a major role in future vehicle control systems. Contemporary vehicle navigation systems generally consist of vehicle positioning using satellites and location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to the roadway geometry using a digitised map on a CD-ROM. The standard GPS (with Selective Availability) enables positioning with an accuracy of at least 100 m and is sufficiently accurate for most route guidance tasks. More accurate, precision navigation can be obtained by Differential GPS techniques. A new light concept called Adaptive Light Control (ALC) has been developed with the aim to improve night-time traffic safety. ALC improves the headlamp illumination by means of continuous adaptation of the headlamps according to the current driving situation and current environment. In order to ensure rapid prototyping and early testing, the step from offline to online (real-time) simulation of light distributions has been successfully completed in the driving simulator. The solutions are directly ported to real vehicles to allow further testing with natural road conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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