Carsafe

Hybrid Visible Light Communications and Augmented Reality Platform for the Development of Smart Driver Assistance and Vehicle Active Safety Systems

Co-operative driving assistance systems have become particularly important for increasing traffic efficiency and safety. In the future, vehicles will communicate with each other (V2V communication) as well as with infrastructure elements (V2I communication): intelligent traffic signs, intelligent traffic lights, and other infrastructure elements (RSU: road-side units. Thus, vehicles and infrastructure elements will form an ad-hoc vehicular network. An important research direction will focus on these modes of communication, the security required for such communication systems in vehicular ad-hoc networks for cooperative driving assistance applications and for autonomous vehicles. There are two major directions for V2X communication (V2V and V2I). Communication based on the 802.11p standard and communication based on LTE (long-term evolution) mobile communication technologies. Recently, hybrid solutions have been investigate that incorporate both ways of communication. This project aims to develop a new V2X communication architecture, analyzing the two main communication alternatives, interconnecting this architecture with other communication modalities (VLC, IV-AR) and developing new cooperative driving assistance applications that can be also integrated in autonomous vehicles.