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

Name	EMail	Phone	Room
Stephan Rottmann	rottmann[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Dr. Julian Timpner	timpner[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf	wolf[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de	+49-531-3913288	138

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

Title	Type	Supervisor	Status
WLAN-Monitoring von Anlagen des ruhenden Verkehrs	Diploma Thesis	Stephan Rottmann, Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Performanz-Verbesserungen des Breadcrumb-Geocast-Routingprotokolls, Improving the Performance of the Breadcrumb Geocast Routing Protocol	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Geocast in IBR-DTN, Geocast in IBR-DTN	Master Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Multicast in IBR-DTN, Multicast in IBR-DTN	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
HiWi-Job: Entwicklung eines Simulators für Parkbewegungen	HiWi Job	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Friedrichs	finished
Ad-hoc-Architektur für das Sensor Web Enablement Framework	Project Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Konzeption einer Android-basierten Benutzeroberfläche im Fahrzeugumfeld	Studienarbeit	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann	finished
Android-App für die Benutzung des V-Charge-Systems, Android App for using the V-Charge System	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann	finished
Verarbeitung räumlich bezogener Netzwerkdaten zur Verbesserung der Fahrzeugkonnektivität, Processing of Spatial Network Measurements for Vehicular Connectivity	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Entwicklung eines DTN-zu-DDS-Gateways, Development of a DTN-to-DDS Gateway	Master Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann	finished
Optimierung der Parkdichte in Autonomen-Fahrzeug-Szenarien	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann, Stephan Friedrichs	finished
Intelligentes Management von Parkplatzressourcen für Autonome Fahrzeuge, Intelligent Management of Parking Resources for Autonomous Vehicles	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Sicherheitsarchitektur für das V-Charge-System, Security Architecture for the V-Charge System	Master Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner	finished
Entwicklung eines Simulators für die Benutzer- und Fahrzeugkommunikation im V-Charge-Projekt, Development of a Simulator for User and Vehicle Communications in the V-Charge Project	Master Thesis	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann	finished
Entwurf, Implementierung und Evaluierung zentraler Komponenten des V-Charge Systems, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Central Components for the V-Charge System	Master Thesis	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf	finished
Implementierung einer Webanwendung für das V-Charge-System, Implementing a Web Application for the V-Charge System	Studienarbeit	Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann	cancelled

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

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