Cooperative Perception of Connected Vehicles for Safety
This project develops vision-based cooperative perception and accident (crash) avoidance trajectory plans in dynamic environments for two connected vehicles in which the ego vehicle would face a potentially unseen hazard ahead but could receive safety-critical information from a vehicle in front and estimate/predict the trajectory of the potential hazard. There are several challenging technical problems in this V2V and V2X communications environment, aside from the communication itself. Among them are the accurate establishment of the relative position of the involved vehicles and their collective situation relative to the target (which could be a vulnerable road user or another vehicle); the decision of what constitutes a safety-critical information/data and when and how to pass (exchange) them with the ego vehicle to be beneficial for safety; passing of only safety-critical data and trajectories without having to pass extensive video data between two cooperating partners (vehicles); and how to best determine the final trajectories of the ego vehicle and the corresponding cooperating vehicle in order to avoid a potential/imminent collision with the target. To address these challenges and questions, a combination of algorithms and approaches will be developed based on probabilistic random trees (or similar) approaches and other intelligent algorithms to find the optimum ways of cooperating among the two vehicles and defining their forthcoming safe trajectories. The results will be tested in a traffic emulation environment with autonomous connected mobile robots. The methods and approaches will be equally applicable to real-life full vehicles upon further development and testing.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $290895
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747115
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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:
Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Blacksburg, VA United States 24060 -
Project Managers:
Glenn, Eric
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Performing Organizations:
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
3500 Transportation Research Plaza
Blacksburg, Virginia United States 24061 -
Principal Investigators:
Eskandarian, Azim
- Start Date: 20201001
- Expected Completion Date: 20230510
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Algorithms; Connected vehicles; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Traffic safety; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Vehicle trajectories
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01754803
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747115
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Oct 17 2020 12:55AM