This paper introduces UNICARagil, a collaborative project carried out by a consortium
of seven German universities and six industrial partners, with funding provided by the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. In the scope of this project,
disruptive modular structures for agile, automated vehicle concepts are researched
and developed. Four prototype vehicles of different characteristics based on the same
modular platform are going to be build up over a period of four years. The four fully
automated and driverless vehicles demonstrate disruptive architectures in hardware
and software, as well as disruptive concepts in safety, security, verification and
validation. This paper outlines the most important research questions underlying the
project.
