5GROUTES: Automated Cooperative Driving Use Cases

Overview of 5GROUTES use cases for Automated Cooperative Driving

Automated driving involves an increased level of automation of the vehicle functions and reduced driver involvement. However, to achieve the vision of fully autonomous driving, several key enabling capabilities need to be implemented both in vehicles as well as in communication networks. 5G connectivity associated with V2X communication functions, dynamic mapping, accurate positioning, edge-based and AI solutions are expected to overcome most of these challenges by providing more visibility and cooperative decisionmaking mechanisms through communication with the infrastructure and surrounding vehicles. Therefore, MEC-enabled 5G RAN nodes, enhanced with AI, continue to gain more intelligence and capacity to support evolving network demands and superior network experiences that are necessary for the realisation of highly automated cooperating driving.

This use case covers three scenarios: 

• Dynamic vehicles platooning to enable vehicles to dynamically form a group travelling together and very close to each other
• Cooperative lane change to perform joint maneuver decisions and coordinate driving trajectories amongst a group of vehicles, in order to enhance the safety and help the vehicles getting through difficult traffic situations.
• See-Through view for safe automated to provide enhanced visibility of road awareness for safe automated overtake in order to prevent catastrophic head-on collisions during an automated overtake manoeuvre.

Use Case Data Summary

Partner ecosystem: ERICSSON EESTI AS (Estonia); AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH (Germany); AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS (France); PASAZIERU VILCIENS (Latvia); ATOS (Spain); BRAINSTORM MULTIMEDIA SL (Spain); CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA (CTTC, Spain); EBOS TECHNOLOGIES Ltd (Cyprus); EESTI RAUDTEE AS (Estonia); ENIDE SOLUTIONS .S.L (Spain); Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH; Greece); Inlecom (Greece); INSTITUT VEDECOM (France); IQUADRAT INFORMATICA SL (Spain); LATVIJAS MOBILAIS TELEFONS SIA (Latvia); SWARCO MIZAR SRL (Italy); TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL (Estonia); VTT (Finland); TELIA EESTI AS (Estonia); VEDIAFI OY (Finland); WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS (Greece); ELEKTRONIKAS UN DATORZINATNU INSTITUTS (Latvia)

Funding reference: Horizon 2020; ICT-53-2020 - 5G PPP – 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM)

Funding cycle: September 2020-August 2023

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