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System Architectures for Automated Vehicle Guidance Concepts

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Vehicle automation features are becoming more and more important in the field of advanced driver assistance systems in order to increase the vehicle’s safety, comfort and economy. However, a possible risk involved with this development is to simply add vehicle automation functionalities to already existing electronic architectures, leading to an overload of human-machine interfaces, intransparent system borders and a constantly increasing overall system complexity. To overcome this driver-assistance dilemma, the research project PRORETA 3 aims to develop an integrated assistance approach by combining a virtual “Safety Corridor” function for accident prevention with the paradigm of cooperative and semi-automated vehicle automation.

This chapter describes in detail the design process of an appropriate system architecture, which is an important factor for efficient system development. Relevant architecture requirements are presented and an overview is given of the state of technology of vehicle automation architectures within the field of advanced driver assistance systems and robotics.

The chapter closes with a proposition for an exemplary behavior-based layered architecture design for a cooperative automation concept, which, as a novel feature, incorporates the human-machine interface as an integrated element of the architecture itself. Due to its modular approach, the proposed design offers the possibility to also incorporate different levels of vehicle automation and allows a flexible span of functional coverage.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    HMI: Human-Machine Interface.

  2. 2.

    See also Vogel et al. (2005, p. 278).

  3. 3.

    UML: Unified Modeling Language.

  4. 4.

    This finding is also described in Maurer (Maurer 2000, p. 15).

  5. 5.

    Lecture slides and personal question to Professor Raùl Rojas at his speech at FZD, TU Darmstadt on 9 July 2012.

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We thank Continental AG for kindly funding this work within the PRORETA 3 cooperation, which aims to develop future concepts for integrated driver assistance systems.

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Lotz, F. (2013). System Architectures for Automated Vehicle Guidance Concepts. In: Maurer, M., Winner, H. (eds) Automotive Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36455-6_3

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