Teleoperation of Vehicles – A Technology Block for the Automation of the Future Mobility

Authors

Dipl.-Ing. H. Dismon, Dipl.-Ing. K. Kappen, Rheinmetall Technology Center GmbH, Düsseldorf / MIRA GmbH Düsseldorf:

Year

2023

Print Info

Production/Publication ÖVK

Summary

The changing mobility requirements worldwide, the scarcity of resources and, last but not least, the advancing global climate change require a comprehensive adaptation of mobility concepts through suitably adapted vehicle architectures and also by means of newly designed, user-oriented mobility offers.

The latter aspect is becoming increasingly important and is being addressed in particular by the increased use of assistance systems and, above all, intelligent automation systems in vehicles and infrastructure. Automated vehicles increase customer benefits, but also permit optimization of the limited availability and energy consumption, so that considerable potential for resource conservation is also opened up with regard to climate change.

The teleoperation of vehicles in road traffic, in which a driver has remote control of the vehicle, allows safe and responsible vehicle guidance by means of image data, represents a forward-looking technology for the presentation of driverless mobility services (e.g. rental car delivery, hub-to-hub movement of logistics vehicles, first-last-mile vehicle guidance). Furthermore, the technology is a key enabler for higher levels of automation (SAE Level L4/L5), as it can be used to solve so-called edge cases by driver intervention in the event of driving tasks that cannot be solved by the automation technologies e.g. in the event of an accident or route closure. This functionality is already demanded in regulatory requirements, e.g. in the current German Level 4 automation legislation under the aspect of "technical supervision".

ISBN

978-3-9504969-2-5