Automated driving within a lane is a fascinating experience already. However, more exiting
but also technically more challenging is to dare the next step of automating tactical behavior …

Recently, automated driving has more and more been transformed from an exciting vision
into hands on reality by prototypes. While drivers are used to assistance and maybe even …

Today the automotive industry faces a robust trend toward assisted and automated driving.
The technology to accomplish this ambition has evolved rapidly over the last few years, and …

This paper presents a risk assessment algorithm for automatic lane change maneuvers on
highways. It is capable of reliably assessing a given highway situation in terms of the …

Risk estimation for the current traffic situation is crucial for safe autonomous driving systems.
One part of the uncertainty in risk estimation is the behavior of the surrounding traffic …

Determining the current intentions of other drivers is essential for correctly predicting or
simulating their future actions. Especially unpredicted lane changes can result in very …

During the last 25 years, the driving abilities of automated vehicles have progressed rapidly.
This went along with a huge increase of complexity for automated vehicles, regarding the …

To assure a safe, comfortable and especially a cooperative driving experience while driving
semi, highly or even fully automated, anticipation of the driving behavior of other traffic …

We study an algorithm that allows a vehicle to autonomously change lanes in a safe but
personalized fashion without the driver's explicit initiation (eg activating the turn signals) …

Situation understanding and assessment is one of the key features for automated driving. To
enable safe and comfortable motion planning, sensing the current situation is not sufficient …