Prototyping a Low-cost Roadside Device System for Cooperative Automated Driving
Although significant progress has been made in automated driving technologies, technical challenges still exist, especially for complex Operational Design Domains (ODDs). A low-cost roadside device system, the Connected Reference Marker (CRM) System, has been developed to support CAVs in those ODDs. The CRM system can facilitate CAV localization by providing real-time distance measurement and road geometry changes (i.e., work zones). Therefore, the CRM system has the potential to serve as a gateway system for infrastructure-based cooperative driving automation (CDA) due to its low cost and easy deployment. This project will evaluate the performance regarding localization and road geometry data provision in field experiments. Specifically, this project will build a prototype system and evaluate the localization accuracy in various scenarios; in addition, the prototype system will be used to detect the boundaries of work zones, as improving access to work zone data is one of the top needs identified through the USDOT Data for Automated Vehicle Integration (DAVI) effort. The detected boundaries of work zones will be later translated into a data feed following the Work Zone Data Exchange (WZDx) specification, a national work zone data standard pioneered by USDOT to meet the DAVI requirement and a critical part of the Roadway Digital Infrastructure (RDI) strategy.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $150000
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Contract Numbers:
69A3552348305
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
2901 Baxter Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan United States 48109 -
Project Managers:
Stearns, Amy
Bezzina, Debra
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Performing Organizations:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI United States 53706 -
Principal Investigators:
Cheng, Yang
Ran, Bin
Parker, Steven
- Start Date: 20240701
- Expected Completion Date: 20250630
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Data quality; Data sharing; Detection and identification systems; Prototypes; Work zones
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01929667
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 69A3552348305
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Sep 5 2024 4:58PM