Investigating the feasibility of motorcycle autonomous emergency braking (MAEB): Design criteria for new experiments to field test automatic braking

Lucci, Cosimo; Marra, Mirko; Huertas-Leyva, Pedro; Baldanzini, Niccolò; Savino, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.mex.2021.101225

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“…Tests were performed with a motorcycle provided with an automatic braking system triggered via remote control (Lucci et al, 2020). The participants were instructed to ride along a track including a set of manoeuvres (straight path, lane change, slalom simulating traffic filtering, curves) (Lucci et al, 2021). Undeclared interventions of MAEB were deployed by the investigators at predefined locations, with nominal speeds of 35-50 km/h.…”

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Proceedings of the 2021 Australasian Road Safety Conference - Melbourne

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These proceedings describe research, educational and policing program implementation and policy and management strategies related to all aspects of road safety and especially related to the conference theme of Towards Zero: A Fresh Approach. The 2021 conference covers a comprehensive range of topics including speed, infrastructure and road design, education, licensing, vehicle design, impairment due to alcohol, drugs and mobile phones. The conference also presents innovative symposium sessions including interdisciplinary approaches combining safety, the law and design and showcasing successful programs involving at-risk youth, older drivers and safety approaches for non-occupants, specifically when we walk and ride a bicycle. Around 600 delegates from 28 countries attended the on-line virtual conference, held in this format because of COVID 19 restrictions. Authors of accepted Extended Abstracts and Full Papers represented international and local institutions from all aspects of their respective communities including research centres, private companies, government agencies and community groups. The Extended Abstracts and links to Full Papers presented in these Proceedings provide an indication of the important work being done in Australia, New Zealand and internationally as part of the United Nations, One UN Vision for Road Safety to reduce the number of crashes roads by 50 percent by 2030.

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“…Up until today, various other research groups have of course also proceeded in their MAEB research. Examples for this are research on the detection of one-handed riding during the activation of automated braking(Wahl et al, 2019) and field testing of MAEB in urban riding scenariosLucci et al (2021).…”

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A Review on the Development of a Test Method for Motorcycle Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems

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2023

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In the passenger car and truck sector, assistance systems that intervene in emergency situations and thus help to improve vehicle safety have already been successfully used for many years. Although motorcyclists are subject to a high risk of suffering severe or fatal injuries in road traffic, systems that actively intervene in emergency situations are not yet available in the motorcycle sector. One reason for this is that passenger car systems cannot easily be adapted due to the motorcycle specific single-track vehicle dynamics. There are characteristic challenges that set limits to the possible application of actively intervening assistance systems. Exceeding these limits when applying an assistance system on a motorcycle could result in the occurrence of new critical situations that are no longer controllable for the rider. Still, previous research concludes that assistance systems for motorcycles have the potential to increase riding safety and identifies autonomous emergency braking systems for motorcycles (MAEB) as one of the most promising technologies (Savino et al., 2013). One major challenge in MAEB studies is the conflict of goals between the aim to optimize the effectiveness of MAEB by identifying maximum possible decelerations that can be applied in a safe way and the wish to evaluate ‘natural’ rider reactions to an autonomous braking intervention. For the latter, riders should not anticipate the autonomous deceleration in order to achieve unbiased results. However, it is ethically unacceptable to determine feasible deceleration limits with unprepared study participants as approaching these limits carries the risk of provoking critical situations. During the research described in the paper at hand, a multi-phase approach was developed, in order to overcome the trade-off between achieving maximum effectiveness of braking interventions by identifying maximum feasible decelerations on the one hand and on the other hand evaluating unbiased reactions of unprepared riders. While other research groups focus on urban riding scenarios at velocities up to 50 km/h in their MAEB research (e.g., Lucci et al., 2021), the investigations described here concentrate on higher velocities as they occur in rural scenarios. Throughout the research described in this paper, the developed investigation method was exemplarily applied to a prototype MAEB system. The paper provides an overview of the major results of all three phases of MAEB assessment. The method proves to be appropriate and delivers promising results regarding the applicability of autonomous emergency braking systems for motorcycles in the evaluated scenarios. The reproducibility of the measured rider reactions creates confidence that the corresponding effects are predictable, which means that the rider behavior does not represent a completely incalculable safety-critical factor for the application of MAEB. The successful application of the method leads to the conclusion that it can serve as a basis for the release of systems that intervene in the longitudinal dynamics. It gives manufacturers and system suppliers the opportunity to systematically prove that their systems are controllable for end users and can be applied without causing additional risks. Thus, the method can contribute to the future use of safety-enhancing assistance systems for motorcycles.

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“…During the research described in the paper at hand, a multi-phase approach was developed, in order to overcome the trade-off between achieving maximum effectiveness of braking interventions by identifying maximum feasible decelerations on the one hand and on the other hand evaluating unbiased reactions of unprepared riders. While other research groups focus on urban riding scenarios at velocities up to 50 km/h in their MAEB research (e.g., Lucci et al, 2021), the investigations described here concentrate on higher velocities as they occur in rural scenarios.…”

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Investigating the feasibility of motorcycle autonomous emergency braking (MAEB): Design criteria for new experiments to field test automatic braking

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Proceedings of the 2021 Australasian Road Safety Conference - Melbourne

Proceedings of the 2021 Australasian Road Safety Conference - Melbourne

A Review on the Development of a Test Method for Motorcycle Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems

A Review on Test Method Development for Motorcycle Autonomous Emergency Braking Systems

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