As part of the activities to disseminate the results of the GUIADE project, a presentation was held on 30 November to show the key achievements of the project.
GUIADE has been coordinated by SICE, in partnership with the University of Alcalá, King Juan
Carlos University , Automation and Robotics Centre–UPM and the firm Albentia Systems, and funded by
the Ministry of Science and Innovation under the National RDI Plan.
The demonstration featured an overall experiment, combining the messaging service between
vehicles and infrastructure, the automatic vehicle-guidance system and ADAS systems based on
wireless communications.
The venue was the CAR-UPM’s test tracks. Two vehicles were involved, with different on-board
technologies: a car fitted with artificial-vision systems and a wide range of on-board sensors, and
a bus adapted with an automatic steering, braking and acceleration system, capable of performing
certain automatic-guidance sequences.
The demonstration scenario was completed with the SW installation developed on a virtual
server, acting as a control centre for interurban environments, and a traffic-light-controlled
crossing, simulating urban environments — all managed by SICE.
The test began with both vehicles on track, sending regular updates on their position to the
control centre.
As they approached the area of influence of a previously set up weather incident, the
vehicles were warned from the control centre via the real-time driver-information system on board,
with a message indicating the nature of the incident and the recommended speed over the affected
section. At a second point, the two vehicles received an alert about another incident, in this case
heavy traffic, recommending a drop in speed. In the case of the bus, this recommendation resulted
in it automatically slowing down until it had passed beyond the alert’s area of influence.
Validation of the messaging service from the vehicle to the control centre was conformed when
the car, driving a few metres in front of the bus, braked suddenly. The action was identified by
the control centre as a congestion event and the bus was alerted accordingly.
For urban environments, the traffic-light-priority service for public transport developed by
SICE was demonstrated, with the bus approaching a controlled junction.
Its request for a green cycle to pass through was received by the regulator associated with
the junction, which responded by giving the bus priority over the car, whose traffic light turned
red.
