The BMW Group Research and Technology has been testing automated vehicles on
Germany's highways since Spring 2011. Since then, thousands of kilometers have been …

Higher-level automated driving keeps moving at full speed toward implementation:
Universities are researching solutions for environmental perception, vehicle localization …

PEGASUS (Project for the Establishment of Generally Accepted Quality Criteria, Tools and
Methods as well as Scenarios and Situations for the Release of Highly Automated Driving …

The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high
performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation. These topics are …

The integration of automated and connected vehicles on our existing road network is
expected to impact traffic efficiency and safety. This upcoming new reality causes road …

The environmental perception of automated vehicles is limited by the range and capability of
on‐board sensors. Road infrastructure operators already employ numerous traffic and …

This paper presents a functional system architecture for an automated vehicle. It provides an
overall, generic structure that is independent of a specific implementation of a particular …

Considerable research effort has been devoted within the past 15 years to automating the
driving of highway vehicles in order to improve their safety and efficiency of operation and to …

The Stadtpilot project aims at autonomous driving on Braunschweig's inner city ring road.
For this purpose, an autonomous vehicle called “Leonie” has been developed. In October …

This paper presents an autonomous driving test held in Parma on urban roads and freeways
open to regular traffic. During this test, the vehicle not only performed simple maneuvers, but …