SPARC

The SPARC Project forms an European effort to improve general trafic safety be aplying intelligent X-by-wire technology to vehicles powertrains. Within this project the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH is envolved in the development of an intelligent driver assistant system allowing the vehicle to detect environment features like lanes and other traffic participants independently from the driver and devolop strategies for a good reaction on that particular environment.
SPARC stands for Secure Propulsion using Advanced Redundant Control. The goal of SPARC is to substantially improve traffic safety and efficiency for heavy goods vehicles using intelligent x-by-wire technologies in the powertrain. To prove this standardized concept an automotive Software/Hardware platform will be developed that is scalable and usable from heavy goods vehicles down to small passenger cars (sPC) and be integrated therein. SPARC will propose a complete automotive concept of an open system architecture, where software functionalities of different partners can be integrated easily. Two validation vehicles of this architecture will be build and evaluated.