Automated Vehicles Controlled by Smart Infrastructure - the Architecture of Managed Automated Driving (MAD)

The German national project MAD Urban is investigating the possibilities of smart infrastructure, which is not only providing additional information for "Cooperative Automated Vehicles" (CAV) on the road, but is also taking over parts of the vehicle automation function. This paper provides an overview of the system architecture developed in the project for this approach, which includes coordinated cooperative behaviour planning for several so called "Managed Automated Vehicles" (MAV) within the area monitored by road side sensors. Furthermore, a functional description of the major system components is provided, which are currently implemented and will be demonstrated in 2024. Besides, this paper already summarizes some challenges discovered so far.