Cooperative guidance, control, and automation

The technological feasibility of more and more assistant systems and automation in vehicles leads to the necessity of a better integration and cooperation with the driver and with other traffic participants. This chapter describes an integrated cooperative guidance of vehicles including assisted, partially automated, and highly automated modes. Starting with the basic concepts and philosophy, the design space, parallel and serial aspects, the connections between abilities, authority, autonomy, control, and responsibility, vertical versus horizontal and centralized versus decentralized cooperation are discussed, before two follow-on chapters of H-Mode and Conduct-by-Wire describe instantiations of cooperative guidance and control.