Handover Process of Autonomous Vehicles - Technology and Application Challenges

Self-driving technologies introduced new challenges to the control engineering community. Autonomous vehicles with limited automation capabilities require constant human supervision, and human drivers have to be able to take back control at any time, which is called handover. This is a critical process in terms of safety, thus appropriate handover modeling is fundamental in design, simulation and education related to self-driving cars. This article reviews the literature of handover processes, situation awareness and control-oriented human driver models. It unifies the psychological and physiological control theory models to create a parameterized engineering tool to quantify the handover processes.