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The paper focuses on essential elements of the control systems that are currently used in semi-automated cars and those that will be used in fully automated cars named as autonomous cars. Autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. The highest level of automated driving assumes that all activities done by the driver can be replaced by a suitable control system. In this context, the autonomous car can be regarded as a control system working in a closed-loop setting. The desired value for the defined control system is a vehicle state specified in the destination point where the car should be placed starting a ride from a given initial state. The car in automated driving mode affects other cars in traffic, elements of road infrastructure and other road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, animals, etc. Set of sensors provides data on the environment surrounding the car in the area defined by their field of view. These data after initial pre-processing are used for detecting objects surrounding the vehicle. Data from different types of sensors are combined with each other in order to increase the confidence level of the objects detected in the vehicles neighbourhood. Having the list of detected objects a vehicle environmental model is created, which is used to analyse the current situation and then plan the trajectory of the vehicle to the destination state. Besides the vehicle environmental model an important role in fully automated cars plays the driver model by means of which can be determined the characteristics for the actuators in such a way that the dynamics of the vehicle is as close as possible to the situation in which the driver manually guides the vehicle. Models of vehicle kinematics and dynamics are essential to tune controllers that are responsible for determining the trajectory of the vehicle and its stability properties. It should be emphasised that due to the nature of the automotive industry a fully automated driving will not happen overnight, but as technology develops. Control systems already on the market are gradually developed and their functionalities will work towards taking overall control of the vehicle.
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Skruch, P. (2017). Control Systems in Semi and Fully Automated Cars. In: Mitkowski, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oprzędkiewicz, K., Skruch, P. (eds) Trends in Advanced Intelligent Control, Optimization and Automation. KKA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 577. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60699-6_16
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