TRR 28:  Cognitive Automobiles

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: from 2006 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 13634853

Cognition includes perception, deduction, and recognition and thereby supplies automobiles with completely novel abilities. Cognitive automobiles are able to sense themselves and their surroundings, as well as to accumulate and organise knowledge. In the not so distant future, they will be able to make sensible decisions in real time as to how they should act even in complex traffic scenarios in such a way that they will have access to a realistic interpretation of themselves and their surroundings as well as a constantly increasing knowledge background. Therefore, this project connects interdisciplinary areas of research with relevance to science, industry and community that can hardly be overestimated.
The programmes's overall objective is the systematic and interdisciplinary research of machine cognition in the context of mobile systems as the basis of machine behaviour. Its scientific foundation will be based on the development of a theory of machine cognition, whose validity shall be proven by simulations and a small fleet of experimental automobiles. They will perceive the surrounding traffic, interpret the behaviour of other traffic participants, and even automatically generate suitable behaviour. A cognitive automobile will be capable of individual as well as of cooperative perception and interaction. The theory of machine cognition will enable propagation of measurement uncertainty and symbolic vagueness throughout the complete cognition chain and provide certainty measures that quantify the trust in a generated specific behaviour.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios

Completed projects

• A01 - Aufmerksamkeitsgesteuerte mono-/stereoskopische Wahrnehmung komplexer Verkehrsräume (Project Heads Kammel, Sören ;  Stiller, Christoph )
• A02 - Entdeckung, Klassifikation und Zustandsschätzung verkehrsrelevanter Objekte (Project Heads Färber, Georg ;  Wünsche, Hans-Joachim )
• A03 - Integration komplementärer Sensorik und Sensordatenfusion (Project Heads Diepold, Klaus ;  Puente León, Fernando )
• A04 - Kooperative Wahrnehmung vernetzter Kognitiver Automobile (Project Head Stiller, Christoph )
• B01 - Situationsbewertung und Verhaltenserkennung (Project Head Dillmann, Rüdiger )
• B02 - Kognitive Verhaltensentscheidung und Bahnplanung (Project Head Dillmann, Rüdiger )
• B03 - Verteilte Kooperation (Project Head Beyerer, Jürgen )
• B07 - Sicherheitsbewertung von (autonomen) Verhaltensentscheidungen durch Methoden der hybriden Verifikation (Project Head Buss, Martin )
• B08 - Kommunikation zwischen Fahrzeugen (Project Head Eberspächer, Jörg )
• Z - Koordination und Verwaltung (Project Heads Diepold, Klaus ;  Stiller, Christoph )
• ZT01 - Hardware-/Software-Architektur (Project Head Färber, Georg )
• ZT02 - Fahrzeugbereitstellung und Einsatzsicherheit (Project Head Heißing, Bernd )
• ZT03 - Fahrzeugausrüstung und -bereitstellung (Project Heads Bretthauer, Georg ;  Stiller, Christoph )
• ZT04 - Experimental Vehicles (Project Heads Diermeyer, Frank ;  Stiller, Christoph )

• Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ; Campus Süd (aufgelöst)
• Co-Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; Technische Universität München (TUM); Universität der Bundeswehr München
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Christoph Stiller