Highly autonomous vehicles will have no steering wheel, will not need a driver interaction
and will have some new design strategies to allow self-driving of vehicles. This paper will …

The SOQRATES (www. soqrates. de) working party has been established in 2003 with the
support of the Bavarian SW initiative. Major automotive suppliers joined forces to exchange …

The combination of multiple functions having different and complementary capabilities
enables the emergence of Autonomous Vehicles. Their deployment is limited by the level of …

Abstract In November 2007, the DARPA Urban Challenge took place on the former George
Airforce base in Victorville, California. Within that competition, teams from all-over the world …

Developing customer ready autonomous driving systems is the moonshot project for the
automotive industry as well as for many new players in the field. Some years ago when the …

Massive investment in'intelligent'vehicle technologies is going to turn autonomous vehicles
into reality in a few years. The insertion of this intelligence at the road vehicles is expected to …

Fully automated vehicles will require new functionalities for perception, navigation and
decision making--an Autonomous Driving Intelligence (ADI). We consider architectural …

Assuring the safety of self-driving cars and other fully autonomous vehicles presents
significant challenges to traditional software safety standards both in terms of content and …

As the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) of self-driving vehicles increase, it is necessary
to investigate the Electrical/Electronic (E/E) system architectures for autonomous driving …

We outline core parameters to be taken into account when (i) defining safe states of
autonomous passenger vehicles and (ii) deriving operational strategies of reaching them …