Networked environment description for advanced driver assistance systems

An overview of our work is given which provides future driver assistance systems with an extended environment description. In detail, methods for low-delay video compression, attention selection, sensor data fusion, inter-vehicle communication, cooperative cognition of vehicles and the improvement of gear shift logic are presented. The algorithms were developed in the context of a joint project of the University of Ulm and the University of Karlsruhe. To evaluate the system in real traffic situations, we are equipped with two test vehicles.