Cognitive automobiles will be capable to perceive their environment and to interpret the behaviour of other traffic participants, to automatically generate suitable behaviour and to cooperate with others in their perception process and decision making. Analytic research is accompanied by closed-loop simulations and experimental autonomous vehicles.

At RCS, we concentrate our research ambitions on the following aspects:

• Architectures for Cognitive Automobiles
• Real-time database for Cognitive Automobiles (KogMo-RTDB)
• HW/SW-Interfaces for Cognitive Systems
• Test- and simulation tools for Cognitive Systems
• Detection and tracking of traffic-related objects
• Bio-inspired systems for machine vision
• Omnidirectional camera systems

The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 28 (TCRC28) "Cognitive Automobiles" gathers expertise from Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Universität der Bundeswehr München and Technische Universität München. It focuses on interdisciplinary research on machine cognition of mobile systems as the basis for automated machine behaviour.

Project website: kognimobil.org

RCS Sub-projects overview: TUM - Faszination Forschung - issue 3