Cooperative Hub for Cooperative Research on Cooperatively Interacting Vehicles: Use Cases, Design and Interaction Patterns

This chapter describes central cooperative activities in the research priority program Cooperatively Interacting Vehicles (CoInCar). If the whole research program CoInCar can be seen as a wheel, which is turning research questions into answers, knowledge and hopefully progress for society, the individual research projects described in the other chapters could be seen as spokes of the wheel, and the aspects described in this chapter as an informal cooperative hub of the wheel. Starting with common essential definitions, a use case catalogue was derived and documented. Based on that, cooperation and interaction pattern were sketched and documented into a pattern database. While the details of the research hub described here are specific for this DFG priority program, the general principles of a research hub could be transferred to any other research and development activity.