Cooperative autonomous driving -: Intelligent vehicles sharing city roads

In 2002, Griffith University's Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory (ICSL) tested its cooperative autonomous driving algorithms by deploying them on three computer-assisted experimental vehicle platforms developed by INRIA and ROBOSOFT. The vehicles performed several driving maneuvers in cooperation with each other and without any human assistance. The manuever included an unsignalized intersection traversal, a cooperative overtaking maneuver, a maneuver requiring the vehicles to drive one behind each other while maintaining distance and track control, and finally, a simple road-lane following behavior. Overall, the deployed decision and control algorithms made the road-scaled vehicles capable of undertaking cooperative autonomous maneuvers.