At the heart of FRODDO is a commitment to advancing the frontiers of connected and automated mobility (CCAM). Our project harnesses cutting-edge technologies to address the challenges of real-world deployment, ensuring that automated vehicles and infrastructure are safer, smarter, and more adaptable than ever before. FRODDO’s innovation lies in our unique combination of AI-driven systems, advanced sensing technologies, and a federated digital twin (DT) environment, all built on a foundation of fail-safe design principles.
Through these innovations, FRODDO is paving the way for the future of automated mobility, where vehicles and infrastructure work together in a cohesive and secure ecosystem. Our commitment to innovation ensures that we are not only meeting today’s mobility challenges but also anticipating the needs of tomorrow, delivering solutions that are scalable, adaptable, and, above all, safe.
FRODDO is pioneering the use of hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models to enhance the decision-making capabilities of automated vehicles. By integrating predictive analytics with real-time data inputs, our systems can anticipate road conditions, adapt to traffic patterns, and respond to unforeseen events, such as sudden weather changes or accidents. This proactive approach significantly improves the safety and efficiency of connected vehicles, ensuring they can navigate even the most complex driving environments.
Innovation: AI and ML technologies enable automated vehicles to make real-time adjustments to their operational design domains (ODDs), allowing seamless transitions across different road types, weather conditions, and traffic situations.
FRODDO’s federated digital twin (DT) platform is a groundbreaking innovation that allows us to simulate and test automated systems in a virtual environment that mirrors real-world road conditions. This DT environment integrates data from physical and digital infrastructures, enabling us to model various scenarios, from urban to rural settings, in a risk-free manner. The DT helps ensure that every automated vehicle is rigorously tested and optimized before it hits the road.
Innovation: The DT environment provides real-time feedback to engineers and developers, allowing them to refine automated systems, test responses to critical events, and validate performance in diverse conditions.
A core pillar of FRODDO is our commitment to safe systems design. We recognize that safety must be built into every component of connected and automated mobility systems, from the vehicle's sensors to its interaction with infrastructure. FRODDO focuses on designing systems with multiple redundancies (fail-safe designs) to ensure the highest level of safety. This includes enabling vehicles to communicate with roadside infrastructure and other vehicles, ensuring smooth transitions in complex or hazardous road environments.
Innovation: Our safe systems design includes V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communication technologies that allow automated vehicles to safely interact with physical road infrastructure, pedestrians, and other road users, enhancing overall safety.
Automated vehicles rely on accurate and comprehensive sensing systems to interpret their surroundings and make informed decisions. FRODDO leverages the latest advancements in sensing technologies, including LIDAR, RADAR, and advanced imaging systems, to ensure that vehicles can detect obstacles, road conditions, and other dynamic factors with precision. These sensing technologies are further enhanced by AI algorithms that process data in real time, enabling the vehicle to respond rapidly to any changes in its environment.
Innovation: Our innovative use of sensing technologies allows vehicles to detect and avoid hazards, even in extreme conditions such as heavy rain, fog, or complex intersections, improving overall operational safety.
FRODDO is also innovating in the way humans interact with automated systems. Our human-centric design approach ensures that critical information, such as alerts or messages, is conveyed to drivers in an intuitive and timely manner. We are developing multimodal user interfaces that enhance drivers’ situational awareness, particularly in situations where the vehicle’s automated systems hand control back to the driver.
Innovation Highlight: Our user interfaces provide seamless interaction between the driver and the automated system, ensuring that drivers are always informed of the vehicle’s status and can take control when needed, with minimal disruption or confusion.
FRODDO is pushing the boundaries of secure vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. Our goal is to create a system that not only ensures the secure transmission of data between vehicles and infrastructure but also supports the scalability of automated mobility solutions across different regions and environments. This includes secure internet-to-vehicle (I2V) communications, which are critical for enabling automated vehicles to operate in connected ecosystems.
Innovation: Our connectivity solutions ensure that vehicles can communicate securely and reliably with their surroundings, from traffic lights to other vehicles, while maintaining data privacy and security standards.