IRIT , Toulouse University
Keywords
Intelligent Transport System, Distributed optimization, Multi-Agent System, Referential Frame Transformation
Recent advancements to improve road traffic have led to the emergence of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Vehicles can replace the human driver in specific context thanks to the ever-increasing number of smart devices, and they gradually become autonomous. As an autonomous entity, a vehicle behaves according to its perceptions provided by embedded sensors. Not only it can see, but it also has access to other vehicles perceptions through communications. There is a necessity for a CAV to perform social interaction and social signaling. The range of potential interlocutors is wide: vehicles, of course, but also other road users: pedestrians, motorcycles, cyclists, electric scooters and if we think ahead, robots. The overall objective is to provide CAVs with social skills making possible cooperative behavior.
The first addressed lock is the transformation of referential frame. A CAV referential frame refers to its environment self-representation. Usually, an autonomous entity uses itself as a reference point. Position, distance, vectors, etc. are calculated from it. This leads to a possible incomprehension between CAVs and the missuses of a critical information. To counter it, we have proposed a solution enabling CAV to understand information from different referential frame.
The second lock concerns the communication optimization in a fleet of CAVs. With the continuously increasing number of vehicles and smart devices, the number of sensed data become huge. Sharing the integrality of these data can cause issues like delays, errors, and bottleneck. Obviously, not everything is useful to share, and we have proposed a solution to optimize which information is shared based on its usefulness.
Figure 1: « A fleet of autonomous and connected vehicles. »
Scientific goals
- Enabling the use of an information from different referential frames
- Addressing the high dynamicity of the ITS
- Optimizing the communication volume and efficiency
Contact
guilhem.marcillaud_at_irit.fr, valerie.camps_at_irit.fr, stephanie.combettes_at_irit.fr, marie-pierre.gleizes_at_irit.fr
