From Aviation down to Vehicles - Integration of a Motions-Envelope as Safety Technology

Some systems like the ESP already exist to support the driver for the stabilization of the vehicle. But the next generation of active safety system will have to deal with a wider environment of the vehicle, to go closer to the limit of the vehicle dynamic etc. With such a complexity the systems will also have to take into account their own limits and to reduce their actions when they have a low confidence, e.g. when sensors are degraded. This article describes firstly a virtual driver and secondly a decision control that fuses their command depending on their confidences in order to improve the reliability of the command level.