The Road to Active Light - Headlamp Concepts with Enhanced Adaptive Functionalities HELLA KGaA Hueck and Company

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Decker, Detlef, author.

Conference Name:

SAE World Congress & Exhibition (2007-04-16 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2007

Summary:

The discussions of lighting experts in recent years formed the vision of an intelligent headlamp concept for the next decade: An intelligent headlamp system that will illuminate the road according to the driving conditions and, most importantly, that will react to oncoming and preceding traffic.The final stage of this scenario will be an "Active Headlamp" that will, similar to the current high beam, illuminate the complete road scene but exclude other road-users in front and on the opposite side of the road from glare, but not from signal information of the lamp. It is obvious that configurations having such a precise performance can be realized only with complex systems with highly sophisticated sensors, processors and actuators. With respect to the maturity of the available technology, the necessary development will take several years. However, on the way to this level of performance, new headlamp concepts with enhanced adaptive functionalities will even now remarkably improve the conditions for optical perception in the case of night-time driving:This article attempts to provide some insight into the development status of the above-mentioned systems, with their functional possibilities and technological implementation.It concludes with a look at the future potential of active lighting systems, with the next steps for their implementation

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Publisher Number:

2007-01-0601

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license