FHWA Cooperative Automation Research: CARMA Proof-of-Concept TSMO Use Case Testing: CARMA Cooperative Perception Low-Level Concept of Operations

DTFH6116D00030L (TO 19-360)The Federal Highway Administration initiated the Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Program, formerly known as the CARMA Program, to advance the research and development of CDA to accelerate market readiness and deployment. CDA aims to improve the safety, traffic throughput, and energy efficiency of the transportation network by allowing road users and infrastructure to communicate and cooperate. CARMA cooperative perception (CP) is a feature of the CARMA Ecosystem that allows entities to share locally perceived data. CP is expected to improve perception performances of automated vehicles and CARMA Streets. The enhanced situational awareness is expected to enable more effective CDA safety and mobility applications This low-level concept of operations (ConOps) is published with the associated high-level ConOps. This low-level ConOps focuses on the system framework and requirements of the CP feature in the CARMA Ecosystem for a particular scenario involving vulnerable road users crossing in controlled conflict areas