DEMO6 - CAVIL

Collaborative, automated vehicles are an important field of research in future mobility, as they can enable safer and more efficient driving.  
Illustrating hardware and software architectures is a particular challenge, as the processes within them are not directly visible. A dedicated demonstrator is needed to make them tangible for interested parties, especially students and schoolchildren (SuS). 

Aim

In order to counteract the decline in the number of first-year students in STEM subjects, potential first-year students need to be inspired at an early stage. With the help of the Collaborative Automated miniature Vehicle-In-the-Loop (CAVIL) demonstrator, a test vehicle dedicated to pupils is to be set up to make current research disciplines in the field of system/software architectures and safety inside and outside the vehicle tangible. 

Approach

• Expansion of the demonstrator with intelligent sensors, expandable architectures and cooperative driving functions 
• Introduction of additional vehicles for research into collaborative driving functions 
• Development of a 5G-V2X environment 

Benefit

CAVIL comprehensively illustrates important areas of future mobility. CAVIL should therefore serve as an eye-catcher and bring the associated research topics of software-defined mobility, wireless connectivity, life cycle optimization and the safeguarding of driving functions closer to the students.