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.
| Name | 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 |
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLAN-Monitoring von Anlagen des ruhenden Verkehrs | Diploma Thesis | Stephan Rottmann, Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2013 |
| Improving the Performance of the Breadcrumb Geocast Routing Protocol, ... | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2014 |
| Geocast in IBR-DTN, ... | Master Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2013 |
| Multicast in IBR-DTN, ... | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2013 |
| HiWi-Job: Entwicklung eines Simulators für Parkbewegungen | HiWi Job | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Friedrichs | finished ~2014 |
| Ad-hoc-Architektur für das Sensor Web Enablement Framework | Project Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2013 |
| Studienarbeit | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann | finished ~2012 | |
| Android App for using the V-Charge System, ... | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann | finished ~2013 |
| Processing of Spatial Network Measurements for Vehicular Connectivity, ... | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2014 |
| Development of a DTN-to-DDS Gateway, ... | Master Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann | finished ~2013 |
| Optimierung der Parkdichte in Autonomen-Fahrzeug-Szenarien | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann, Stephan Friedrichs | finished ~2014 |
| Intelligent Management of Parking Resources for Autonomous Vehicles, ... | Bachelor Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2014 |
| Security Architecture for the V-Charge System, ... | Master Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner | finished ~2013 |
| Development of a Simulator for User and Vehicle Communications in the V-Charge Project, ... | Master Thesis | Dr. Julian Timpner, Stephan Rottmann | finished ~2012 |
| Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Central Components for the V-Charge System, ... | Master Thesis | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf | finished ~2011 |
| 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.
The EU FP7 research project V-Charge consists of the following institutions: