Due to locomotion of the mobile systems, the cooperation is subject to strong real-time and safety constraints. Furthermore, the systems share and compete for resources. The provision of a reliable communication and cooperation technology is crucial for exploiting the potential of cooperation. Scenario Guaranteeing mobility and transportation in spite of the rapidly increasing and often congested traffic is of major importance for the welfare of our society and economy. However, simply building new traffic routes or expanding the existing ones is in most cases unacceptable under ecological, economical, and social aspects.
Information technology can allow for a more efficient use of the existing infrastructure.
The vision is an embedded, distributed traffic control system provided by a cooperation of the participating units, and thus being more robust and scalable than centralised approaches. Furthermore, centralised navigation systems have evolved in the last years making route planning and guidance systems already commercially available. However, most recent research results already show that this approach is not sufficient to solve the congestion problem. To achieve that, the project focuses on the development of cooperating driving assistants that implement cooperation between the vehicles for solving their resource conflicts instead of resorting to a central controller. Existing local mechatronic technology will be used to automatically implement the results of the cooperation.