Driving situation analysis in automotive environment

In this paper, we show the concept of an automotive situation analysis (ASA) to determine the current driving situation in a given traffic scenario. To fulfill these we propose a consistent and extendable description of a driving situation, a situation model and a situation analysis. In the situation model, information of in-car sensors is used to build up a representation of the environment around the ego vehicle. On top of the situation model, a situation analysis is established to detect the current driving situation according to the given description of driving situation. Furthermore, we briefly discuss two applications that are using the proposed situation analysis to enhance safety and comfort in next generation automotive applications.