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V-Charge

Autonomous Valet Parking and Charging for e-Mobility


The project V-Charge is based on the vision that, due to required drastic decrease of CO2 production and energy consumption, mobility will undergo important changes in the years to come. This includes new concepts for an optimal combination of public and individual transportation as well as the introduction of electrical cars that need coordinated recharging. A typical scenario of such a concept might be automatic drop-off and recovery of a car in front of a train station without taking care of parking or re-charging. Such new mobility concepts require (among other technologies) autonomous driving in designated areas.

The objective of this project is to develop a smart car system that allows for autonomous driving in designated areas (e.g. valet parking, park and ride) and can offer advanced driver support in urban environments. The final goal in four years is the demonstration and implementation of a fully operational future car system including autonomous local transportation, valet parking and battery charging on the campus of ETH Zurich and TU Braunschweig.

Various networking issues have to be solved, e.g., for management of the whole system, for control of indiviudal vehicles as well as for coordination among vehicles, for user interaction, etc.

TU Braunschweig will perform research on these aspects and provide solutions for such networked robots.

Project members at IBR

NameEMailPhoneRoom
Stephan Rottmannrottmann[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Dr. Julian Timpnertimpner[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolfwolf[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de+49-531-3913288138

Publications

  • Dominik Schürmann, Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf: Cooperative Charging in Residential Areas, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, pages 834-846, IEEE Comput. Soc, April 2017 (schuermann:tits:2016, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf: Query-response geocast for vehicular crowd sensing, in Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 36, Part 2, No. Special Issue on Vehicular Crowd Sensing, pages 435-449, June 2016 (Timpner:AdHoc:2016, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner, Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf: Trustworthy Parking Communities: Helping Your Neighbor to Find a Space, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, pages 120-132, IEEE Comput. Soc, 2016 (Timpner:TDSC:2016, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner, Stephan Friedrichs, Johannes van Balen and Lars Wolf: k-Stacks: High-Density Valet Parking for Automated Vehicles, in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Seoul, Korea, IEEE, June 2015 (Timpner:IV:2015, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Stephan Rottmann, Julian Timpner and Lars C Wolf: Demo: Automated Valet Parking and Charging, in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Paderborn, Germany, IEEE, December 2014 (Rottmann:VNC:14, DOI, BibTeX, Poster)
  • Julian Timpner, Mario Wozenilek and Lars Wolf: Breadcrumb Routing: Query-Reponse Geocast for Mobile Originators in Vehicular Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Paderborn, Germany, IEEE, December 2014 (Timpner:VNC:2014, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
  • Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann and Lars Wolf: Vehicular Communications in the V-Charge Project (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the 2nd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Inter-Vehicle Communication (FG-IVC 2014), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, University of Luxembourg, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), pages 40-43, February 2014 (Timpner:IVC:2014, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf: Design and Evaluation of Charging Station Scheduling Strategies for Electric Vehicles, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 579-588, IEEE, 2014 (Timpner:TITS:2013, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Tobias Pögel, Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann and Lars C Wolf: Estimation of Vehicular Connectivity in Autonomous Parking Scenarios, in PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Vol. 36, No. 4, pages 243-248, December 2013 (Poegel:PIK:2013, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner, Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf: Secure Smartphone-based Registration and Key Deployment for Vehicle-to-Cloud Communications, in Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Security, Privacy and Dependability for Cyber Vehicles (CyCAR '13), Berlin, Germany, pages 31-36, ACM Press, November 2013 (Timpner:CyCAR:2013, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
  • W. Derendarz, R. Iser, P. Muehlfellner, S. Wonneberger, T. N. Nguyen, S. Brosig, J. Effertz, H. Mielenz, K. Mimura, M. Beermann, U. Schwesinger, M. Rufli, P. Furgale, J. Timpner, S. Rottmann, L. Wolf, C. Häne, L. Heng, G.H. Lee, M. Pollefeys, H. Grimmet, R. Triebel, I. Posner, P. Newman, E. Cardarelli, S. Cattani, M. Bertozzi, S. Brüning, S. Horstmann, M. Stellmacher and R. Siegwart: Vollautomatisches Laden und Fahren auf öffentlichen Parkplätzen, in Internationaler Kongress Elektronik im Fahrzeug, VDI-Berichte 2188, Baden-Baden, Germany, VDI Wissensforum GmbH, October 2013 (Derendarz:VDI:2013, BibTeX)
  • Paul Furgale, Ulrich Schwesinger, Martin Rufli, Wojciech Derendarz, Hugo Grimmett, Peter Mühlfellner, Stefan Wonneberger, Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann, Bo Li, Bastian Schmidt, Thien Nghia Nguyen, Elena Cardarelli, Stefano Cattani, Stefan Brüning, Sven Horstmann, Martin Stellmacher, Holger Mielenz, Kevin Köser, Markus Beermann, Christian Häne, Lionel Heng, Gim Hee Lee, Friedrich Fraundorfer, René Iser, Rudolph Triebel, Ingmar Posner, Paul Newman, Lars Wolf, Marc Pollefeys, Stefan Brosig, Jan Effertz, Cédric Pradalier and Roland Siegwart: Toward Automated Driving in Cities using Close-to-Market Sensors, an Overview of the V-Charge Project, in Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV '13), Gold Coast, Australia, pages 809-816, IEEE, June 2013 (Furgale:IV:2013, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf: Efficient Charging Station Scheduling for an Autonomous Parking and Charging System, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications (VANET '12), Low Wood Bay, Lake District, UK, pages 145-148, ACM Press, June 2012 (Timpner:VANET:2012, DOI, BibTeX, Poster)
  • Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf: A Back-end System for an Autonomous Parking and Charging System for Electric Vehicles, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC '12), Greenville, SC, pages 693-700, IEEE, March 2012 (Timpner:IEVC:2012, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)

Theses

TitleTypeSupervisorStatus
WLAN-Monitoring von Anlagen des ruhenden VerkehrsDiploma ThesisStephan Rottmann, Dr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2013
Improving the Performance of the Breadcrumb Geocast Routing Protocol, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2014
Geocast in IBR-DTN, ...Master ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2013
Multicast in IBR-DTN, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2013
HiWi-Job: Entwicklung eines Simulators für ParkbewegungenHiWi JobDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Friedrichsfinished ~2014
Ad-hoc-Architektur für das Sensor Web Enablement FrameworkProject ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2013
StudienarbeitDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmannfinished ~2012
Android App for using the V-Charge System, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmannfinished ~2013
Processing of Spatial Network Measurements for Vehicular Connectivity, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2014
Development of a DTN-to-DDS Gateway, ...Master ThesisDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmannfinished ~2013
Optimierung der Parkdichte in Autonomen-Fahrzeug-SzenarienBachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann, Stephan Friedrichsfinished ~2014
Intelligent Management of Parking Resources for Autonomous Vehicles, ...Bachelor ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2014
Security Architecture for the V-Charge System, ...Master ThesisDr. Julian Timpnerfinished ~2013
Development of a Simulator for User and Vehicle Communications in the V-Charge Project, ...Master ThesisDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmannfinished ~2012
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Central Components for the V-Charge System, ...Master ThesisProf. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolffinished ~2011
Implementing a Web Application for the V-Charge System, ...StudienarbeitDr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmanncancelled

If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Stephan Rottmann, Dr. Julian Timpner or Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf.

Project partners

FP7 The EU FP7 research project V-Charge consists of the following institutions:

  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • Volkswagen AG (D)
  • University of Oxford (UK)
  • Robert Bosch GmbH (D)
  • Universita degli Studi di Parma (I)
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig (D)

Links

  • V-Charge - Official Homepage

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