Automated Driving (AD) will, on the long term, contribute to the reduction of road fatalities, increase productivity and social inclusion, and add value in terms of energy efficiency and the protection of the environment. As European car manufacturers and automotive suppliers have been successful in developing and implementing advanced driver assistance systems, AD serves the objectives of increasing the competiveness of the European industry on global markets. In addition, particularly high and full automation represents a promising application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the mobility sector. Smart components and their systems integration, traditional strengths of the European high technology industries, progressively develop into key enabling technologies (KET) for innovative products and applications. This trend has been most obvious in the automotive sector for many years.
EpoSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration, has prepared a roadmap on this topic based on surveys and consultations among major European automotive manufacturers and suppliers. Starting from an analysis of goals and challenges towards the introduction of automated driving and a description of the state-of-the-art technologies, the document presents technology roadmaps that provide information about content and timescales of actions in Research and Innovation (R&I) on technology and in framework conditions. These roadmaps are organized along milestones for implementation of highly automated driving.
The roadmap document has been prepared by a task force consisting of members of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration –EPoSS. At several meetings and workshops, strategic discussions were held, involving a multitude of key industrial and academic stakeholders. Besides, this document serves as a contribution of the smart systems community to a broader strategy development process involving e.g. EUCAR, CLEPA, iMobility Forum and EPoSS, under the umbrella of ERTRAC, and the JTI ECSEL as well as the EGVI PPP.
The European Roadmap Smart Systems for Automated Driving aims at sharing information about state-of-the-art efforts of the European industry, and to state what research actions have to be taken when in order to meet the milestones along the path towards implementing AD. The recommendations given by this roadmap are expected to influence the whole chain of economic value added. Therefore, this roadmap is kept open to contributions from all involved stakeholders.
The roadmap can be found on the website of EpoSS at:
