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Want to cut through the hype and get to the core of autonomous and connected vehicles? Then this book is your clear, accessible guide to a complex and fast-moving field. Starting with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), it walks you through the essential foundations, including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) - the stepping stones to full autonomy.
Explore how self-driving cars mimic human behavior through a loop of perception, analysis, decision, and action. Discover the key functions that make it possible: localization, obstacle detection, driver monitoring, cooperative awareness - and the most challenging of all, trajectory planning, across strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
Will vehicles be connected? The debate is on - but the standards are already here. Learn how connectivity, infrastructure, and vehicles can work in synergy through the innovative concept of floating car data (FCD).
Dive into real-world implementation: with embedded electronics account-ing for over 30% of a modern vehicle's cost, we unpack the architecture, coordination, and tools required to manage the complexity - brought to life with a hands-on case study.
To finish, we open the door to the future: building your own 1:10 scale autonomous vehicle. No plug-and-play solutions - just the foundations for a collaborative, creative, and geek-friendly challenge.
Let's drive the future together.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jacques Ehrlich holds a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications from Télécom ParisTech. At IFSTTAR, which later became Gustave Eiffel University, he co-directed, and later directed, a research laboratory specializing in advanced driving assistance systems and autonomous vehicles until his retirement in 2014. From 2014 to 2024, he was Research Director Emeritus. From 2012 to 2019, he also served as the chair of the international Technical Committee "Road Network Operation and ITS" at the World Road Association (PIARC). Currently, he coordinates a course on autonomous vehicles as part of the Smart Mobility Specialized Master's program (MS-SMOB) at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. A passionate enthusiast of electronics, computers, and glider flying, Jacques is also a certified flying instructor. He has authored several projects published in Elektor Labs, including GONOGO, CHADECHE, COBALT, and OUAH!
