Providentia -- A Large-Scale Sensor System for the Assistance of Autonomous Vehicles and Its Evaluation

Understand

The environmental perception of an autonomous vehicle is limited by its physical sensor ranges and algorithmic performance, as well as by occlusions that degrade its understanding of an ongoing traffic situation.

• This not only poses a significant threat to safety and limits driving speeds, but it can also lead to inconvenient maneuvers.
• Intelligent Infrastructure Systems can help to alleviate these problems.
• An Intelligent Infrastructure System can fill in the gaps in a vehicle's perception and extend its field of view by providing additional detailed information about its surroundings, in the form of a digital model of the current traffic situation, i.e.