The ConnectedDrive Context Server – flexible Software Architecture for a Context Aware Vehicle

Focus is pointed on the ConnectedDrive Context Server (CDCS), a central server component managing the situational context of an automotive human-machine-interaction, that is capable of providing key functionalities for a flexible prototyping process in the development and evaluation of “intelligent” vehicle behaviour. The main features are an object-oriented, shared knowledge management database and both generic, flexible I/O and knowledge analysis interfaces, offering a high compatibility for the connection to existing applications and for the implementation of intelligent reasoning algorithms. Our prototyping architecture is currently used in the development and evaluation of several context aware applications like a context-sensitive lane departure warning system (LDWS).