Cooperative Guidance and Control in Highly Automated Convoys—StrAsRob

As vehicles become more and more intelligent and more and more technology to drive highly automated becomes affordable, concepts to integrate humans and these highly automated vehicles become an integral part of research and development. More functionality also increases the complexity to interact with such systems. Therefore, interaction concepts to cooperatively drive with a highly automated vehicle should focus on central goals: (1) ensure the safety and performance of the overall system, (2) establish a simple and comprehensible interaction between human and automation, (3) create acceptance for the automation system and interface. A study was conducted over the past three years in the field of highly automated military truck convoys at the Fraunhofer FKIE. In this project, FKIE focused on the formulation of use cases and the ergonomic design and evaluation. This paper presents the findings