LIVIC : a research laboratory for advanced driving assistance systems

Illustration LIVIC's office
The LIVIC was founded upon the simple premise that the majority of road accidents result from driver error. Therefore, LIVIC focuses on developping and evaluating driving assistance systems.
LIVIC is a research department from :

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Through reliance upon estabilshed and cutting-edge technologies (sensors, actuators, information processing), LIVIC teams, researchers and engineers are devising and modeling new concepts, implementing systems around them, and then drawing up specifications, constructing and assembling the building blocks for the ultimate purpose of carrying out experiments and assessments.
In partnership with research teams from the social and human sciences, LIVIC also incorporates human factors when evaluating system acceptability and influence on driving behaviour, along with the impact on road safety and environnment.

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Combining the talents of some thirty staff (including doctoral students and fix-term contact), LIVIC has been organized into 3 distinct teams : road environment perception and data fusion, risk and control analysis, and experimental resource development and experimentation.
Futhermore, LIVIC has acces to a 7 km test track network, a fleet of 4 instrumented vehicles, over 600 m² of shop space and laboratories for building prototypes, test and calibration benches, measurement and data collection devices, plus a simulation room.

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Among our partners : Renault, PSA, VALEO, INRIA, Mines de Paris, LAA, IRCCYN, Universities of Paris 6, of Evry and Versailles, research departments of INRETS and LCPC.

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The laboratory's most significant recent accomplishmets include : stereovision-based obstacle detection systems, measurement of visibility distance under foggy conditions, lane departure avoidance, emergency braking, and "urban canyon" localization ; The majority of these innovations have given rise to patent filings.