A Unified Approach for Active Safety in Automotive Cyber Physical Systems

This position paper discusses limitations of the current automotive transportation active safety systems. A system approach can address all levels (the driver, the vehicle,and the traffic) of interconnection between machine, computer and human by leading to incorporating interactions and heterogeneity of different physical layers in a unified framework. The resulting analytical and computational infrastructure, with applications in crash avoidance and traffic flow management, is then discussed.