Poster: Safe V2X Communication for Cooperative Automated Driving

V2X communication prepares to be an important enabler for Cooperative Automated Driving (CAD) use cases on the road as well as in special environments such as logistic yards or industrial plants. While safety in the vehicle is an established topic, V2X needs to evolve to support safe and reliable distributed driving functions across communication partners. The receiving vehicle must be able to decide if the data received is suitable to trigger a safety-critical automated maneuver (data qualification). Furthermore, the V2X messages must include information about the ability of the sender to support the maneuver (sender qualification). This work motivates the use of V2X for safety-critical CAD functions and present challenges and potential solutions to support resilient and distributed CAD systems in a safe way. Our goal is to encourage the discussion within the research community and to push the standardization of safe V2X communication protocols forward.