Towards a Functional System Architecture for Automated Vehicles
This work addresses the need for a standardized framework in automated driving systems, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts without introducing new methods or data.
The paper tackles the problem of designing a functional system architecture for automated vehicles by presenting a generic structure that is independent of specific implementations, drawing inspiration from the real-world Stadtpilot project. The result is an architecture that includes components such as environment perception, planning, control, localization, map provision, V2X communication, and human interaction.
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 vehicle project. Yet, it has been inspired and cross-checked with a real world automated driving implementation in the Stadtpilot project at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. The architecture entails aspects like environment and self perception, planning and control, localization, map provision, Vehicle-To-X-communication, and interaction with human operators.