SAUVVI, Part 1

Envisioning a user interface for an energy-efficient semi-autonomous vehicle

Faculty Leads:
Tomoko Ichikawa
Zach Pino

Research Assistant:
Paolo Tanedo

Project sponsor/partner:
IIT/WISER
Baisravan HomChaudhuri (MMAE)

Class:
Faculty Research

Project Team:
Kie Ichikawa
Noah Keppers
Sue Kim
Shinichiro Kuwahara
Yutian Sun
Yun Yang

Imagine that before there can be a world of autonomous vehicles and driverless cities, there will be a transition period where roads will be mixed with manual, semi-automated, and automated vehicles. Semi-autonomous vehicles assume a relationship between the car and the driver where the driver is still required to take some action while the car can take on a multitude of tasks. Moreover, in a driving context where the goal is energy efficiency, the specifics of the driver response become important.

This project—funded by IIT/WISER—aims to develop visual interfaces for the driver in such a vehicle. The team has thus far sketched, prototyped, and translated the interfaces into a coded representation driven by data. The simulation rig, designed for testing is 80% complete. Systems testing is underway. Due to the Covid-19 interruption, this project will continue in Fall 2020. We look forward to welcoming you to take it for a test drive then.