Interaction Patterns for Cooperative Guidance and Control of Vehicles

With increasing autonomous capabilities of machines the cooperation with humans becomes more and more important. In cooperative guidance and control, humans and machines either share or trade control in a cooperative way. Applied to vehicles, patterns of cooperative movements found in human-to-human interaction can be transferred to the cooperation and interaction of humans and highly automated vehicles. Starting with an overview of the concept of cooperative movement, the concept of interaction patterns is elaborated, on the one hand from an observation perspective and on the other hand from a design perspective. This includes image schemas, design patterns and interaction patterns.