Cognitive vehicle: a new research direction integrating cognitive science and control theory

The concepts and contents of the research on the "cognitive car" and its relationship to the "intelligent vehicle" are explained. Recent important research results on stimula-response and decision action modeling and their applications are reviewed. The relationship between the environment recognition and the driver recognition, the links between the driver decision evaluation and the driver-oriented controller design are discussed, respectively. Some unsolved difficult problems and future hot topics are also presented. Finally, the integration of cognitive science and control theory on the basis of intelligent vehicles is highlighted, with a special emphasis on the human-in-loop control systems.