This open access book explains in detail systems and technologies for assisted and automated driving. It also provides an overview of the limitations of such systems concerning development processes and test tools. This description covers today’s advanced driver assistance systems with environment perception in passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and motorcycles. This includes functional principles as well as embodiments of the components required for this purpose, such as sensors, actuators, mechatronic subsystems, and actuating elements. Additionally, data fusion concepts, environment representations, and user-friendly designs of the human-machine interface between the assistance system and driver are presented.

New priorities are also presented concerning the development of automated driving. Although automated driving is based on the technology of advanced driver assistance systems, removing humans from the responsibility of driving induces entirely new challenges that also go beyond series technology. The variety of necessary innovative approaches is presented in example applications.

The content

Fundamentals of Advanced Driver Assistance System Development – Virtual Development and Test Environments for ADAS – Test Methods – Sensors for ADAS – Data Fusion and Environment Representation – Digital Infrastructure – Actuation for ADAS – Human-Machine-Interfaces for ADAS – ADAS on Guidance- and Navigation Level – Automated Driving

The target groups

• Automotive development and application engineers 


• Students of automotive-electrics, -electronics, -mechatronics


• Students of mechanical engineering/automotive technology


• Students of electronics/ informatics/ information technology

The Editors

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Winner headed the Department of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt (FZD) until 2021. 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Dietmayer is Director of the Institute of Measurement, Control and Microtechnology at the University of Ulm. 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz Eckstein is Director of the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) at RWTH Aachen University. 

Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp is Divisional Board Member Energy and Transport, German Aerospace Center (DLR). 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Maurer is Head of the Institute for Control Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Stiller is Head of the Institute of Measurement and Control Technology (MRT) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.