Cooperative Lane Change Assistant: Background, Implementation & Evaluation.

Abstract

Drivers can cooperate with automation inside the vehicle as well as with traffic participants and intelligent infrastructure outside the vehicle. For that matter cooperation can be a successful concept for designing driver-automation or rather highly automated traffic systems. EU-Project D3CoS was aiming at related knowledge to develop a cross domain framework for design of cooperative systems. For the automotive domain this knowledge was applied to develop a Cooperative Lane Change Assistant (C-LCA) that supports drivers in dense traffic situations while performing lane changes. In this contribution theoretical background, used methods, implementation of the C-LCA, results of its evaluation and lessons learned are described.