A communication framework for Cognitive Autonomous vehicles

This paper presents a communication manager that integrates seamlessly with the software architecture of the Cognitive Automobile in Munich. The main task of the communication manager is to support data exchange for applications that extend the cognitive capabilities of the Cognitive Automobile to a group of such vehicles. Data Object Transfers aid cooperative perception by connecting vehicles' databases and mirroring data objects between those databases. Channels aid cooperative behavior by providing means of multi-sources-to-multi-sinks communication paths. We show how these capabilities can be accessed through a low-complexity interface.