Method and System for Planning the Motion of a Vehicle

A method for planning the motion of a vehicle includes: determining a nominal trajectory for the vehicle based on a desired maneuver to be carried out in a traffic space, on a current state of movement of the vehicle and on a detected state of a surrounding of the vehicle, and determining an abort trajectory branching off from the nominal trajectory and guiding the vehicle to a safe condition regardless of the desired maneuver, wherein the nominal trajectory and the abort trajectory are determined simultaneously using a single optimization process.