In the project, commercial vehicle manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus is responsible for overall system development and the integration of all components into the vehicle. MAN is also responsible for data transmission to the vehicle and commissioning of the Control Center, which will monitor the test drives in line with the technical supervision provided for in the law on autonomous driving.
Knorr-Bremse, world market leader for braking systems, develops the special redundant braking system architecture that enables safe operation of a Level 4 truck in any situation.
The project partner LEONI ensures that the onboard network and the electronic line distribution of the automation system also always function reliably, regardless of any faults that may occur.
Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH is developing a fault-tolerant steering system for ATLAS-L4 that meets all requirements for SAE Level 4 automation.
The Munich-based startup FERNRIDE GmbH is investigating the possibilities of teleoperation in the hub-to-hub scenario addressed by the project. With FERNRIDES's teleoperation platform, autonomous vehicles can be monitored and, if necessary, controlled remotely.
The test tool manufacturer BTC Embedded Systems AG is dedicated to scenario-based and simulative test approaches for complete vehicle verification and safety validation with special consideration of critical driving situations.
In this project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC is extending its methods for security risk analyses to automated trucks for the first time and is researching solutions for holistic security management. On this basis, security risk analyses and protection concepts for the trucks and their ecosystem are being developed.
The Institute of Control Engineering at TU Braunschweig is developing concepts for the safe operation of Level 4 trucks and for the technical self-awareness of automated vehicles, among other things.
The Chair of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Munich contributes its expertise with regard to various aspects of vehicle dynamics and develops interaction concepts for technical supervision.
TÜV SÜD brings its extensive experience with test environments for automated vehicles to the project test drives, testing the capabilities of the vehicles themselves as well as the validity of the simulation, and evaluating the safety of the vehicles as part of the release process.
With the law on autonomous driving, the approval of operating areas on highways falls under the responsibility of Autobahn GmbH. As part of the project, it is developing a digital management system for operating area approval and is contributing its many years of expertise in the field of cooperative and connected driving to the project.
WIVW GmbH is setting up a teleoperator workstation that allows the control of a virtual truck by coupling it with the driving simulation. The requirements developed for a teleoperator workstation can thus be converted into a concrete concept, implemented, visualized and evaluated.