Research on Roadside Unit-Assisted Cooperative Positioning Method for a Connected Vehicle Environment

Author(s):  
Xue Liu ◽  
Tangtao Yang ◽  
Haiyang Chen ◽  
Tony Z. Qiu

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems and connected vehicle (CV) technology, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies have provided new solutions to traditional traffic safety and efficiency issues. However, the current intelligent CVs often provide positioning services only through a single GPS. These modules’ positioning accuracy can be insufficient to support the safety and reliability of security applications. The question arises of how to enhance GPS positioning accuracy in a CV environment without adding additional equipment and using only the information that existing CV devices can access. This paper proposes a roadside unit (RSU)-assisted GPS-RSS (received signal strength) cooperative positioning method for a CV environment. The rough position information from GPS is combined with RSS ranging and dead reckoning to obtain preliminary position estimated coordinates of the CV. Bayesian filtering is performed to obtain a more accurate preliminary position estimate. The final position estimated coordinates, obtained after data fusion, are combined with the high-precision map data (MAP) sent by the RSU to match the lane where the vehicle is located. Simulation and field tests verify each other, and the results show that the lane positioning accuracy of GPS can be improved by 21% within the range from the RSU to the CV’s on-board unit.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3474
Author(s):  
Guang Yu ◽  
Shuo Liu ◽  
Qiangqiang Shangguan

With the rapid development of information and communication technology, future intelligent transportation systems will exhibit a trend of cooperative driving of connected vehicles. Platooning is an important application technique for cooperative driving. Herein, optimized car-following models for platoon control based on intervehicle communication technology are proposed. On the basis of existing indicators, a series of evaluation methods for platoon safety, stability, and energy consumption is constructed. Numerical simulations are used to compare the effects of three traditional models and their optimized counterparts on the car-following process. Moreover, the influence of homogenous and heterogeneous attributes on the platoon is analyzed. The optimized model proposed in this paper can improve the stability and safety of vehicle following and reduce the total fuel consumption. The simulation results show that a homogenous platoon can enhance the overall stability of the platoon and that the desired safety margin (DSM) model is better suited for heterogeneous platoon control than the other two models. This paper provides a practical method for the design and systematic evaluation of a platoon control strategy, which is one of the key focuses in the connected and autonomous vehicle industry.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 5818
Author(s):  
Zhi Dong ◽  
Bobin Yao

In future intelligent vehicle-infrastructure cooperation frameworks, accurate self-positioning is an important prerequisite for better driving environment evaluation (e.g., traffic safety and traffic efficiency). We herein describe a joint cooperative positioning and warning (JCPW) system based on angle information. In this system, we first design the sequential task allocation of cooperative positioning (CP) warning and the related frame format of the positioning packet. With the cooperation of RSUs, multiple groups of the two-dimensional angle-of-departure (AOD) are estimated and then transformed into the vehicle’s positions. Considering the system computational efficiency, a novel AOD estimation algorithm based on a truncated signal subspace is proposed, which can avoid the eigen decomposition and exhaustive spectrum searching; and a distance based weighting strategy is also utilized to fuse multiple independent estimations. Numerical simulations prove that the proposed method can be a better alternative to achieve sub-lane level positioning if considering the accuracy and computational complexity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
Yankun Wang ◽  
Renzhong Guo ◽  
Weixi Wang ◽  
Xiaoming Li ◽  
Shengjun Tang ◽  
...  

Indoor positioning is of great importance in the era of mobile computing. Currently, considerable focus has been on RSS-based locations because they can provide position information without additional equipment. However, this method suffers from two challenges: (1) fingerprint ambiguity and (2) labour-intensive fingerprint collection. To overcome these drawbacks, we provide a near relation-based indoor positioning method under a sparse Wi-Fi fingerprint. To effectively obtain the fingerprint database, certain interpolation methods are used to enrich sparse Wi-Fi fingerprints. A near relation boundary is provided, and Wi-Fi fingerprints are constrained to this region to reduce fingerprint ambiguity, which can also improve the efficiency of fingerprint matching. Extensive experiments show that the kriging interpolation method performs well, and a positioning accuracy of 2.86 m can be achieved with a near relation under a 1 m interpolation density.


2014 ◽  
Vol 696 ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Xin Mao ◽  
Shan Liu ◽  
Jian Ping Chai

With the rapid development of mobile communication, the GPS (Global Positioning System) which provides real-time global positioning system has not been able to meet the needs of the indoor accurate positioning. Through simulation, this paper implements the method of indoor three-dimensional positioning based on RSSI compared the positioning accuracy under several kinds of noise. We achieve the good indoor three-dimensional positioning method with the combination of cost, positioning accuracy and positioning precision through the filter and secondary positioning which establishes special propagation model for various different environments.


Author(s):  
Y. Wang ◽  
W. Wang ◽  
X. Li ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
R. Guo

Abstract. Indoor positioning is of great importance to the era of mobile computing. Currently, much attention has been paid to RSS-based location for that it can provide position information without additional equipment. However, this method suffers from many challenges: (1) fingerprint ambiguity; (2) labor-intensive of fingerprint collection; (3) low efficiency of fingerprint matching. To get over these drawbacks, we provide a collaborative WiFi fingerprinting indoor positioning method using near relation. The base idea of this method is that interpolation method is used to enrich sparse Wi-Fi fingerprint. Near relation boundary is provided and Wi-Fi fingerprints is constrained to this region to reduce fingerprint ambiguity, which also can improve the efficiency of fingerprint matching. Extensive experiments show that a positioning accuracy of 3.8 m can be achieved with the near relation under 1 m interpolation density.


2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 1189-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Du ◽  
Nan Liu ◽  
Rui Fang ◽  
Xiang Hui Song

Cooperative positioning (CP) is one of the core features in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) which is used to increase the positioning accuracy via wireless communication between vehicles and infrastructures. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is always unavailable near black spot such as the curve which needs to be solved. So, in this paper, a novel CP scheme is proposed for the curve warning scenario with limited GNSS by utilizing the information of received signal strength and pointer angular of the roadside unit which is in a special dual-transmitter outphasing architecture. An extended Kalman filter is founded to estimate the real-time position of the vehicle in the curve section. The whole warning scenario is analyzed by computer simulation, and the result shows the feasibility of the method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6831
Author(s):  
Yue Chen ◽  
Jian Lu

With the rapid development of road traffic, real-time vehicle counting is very important in the construction of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Compared with traditional technologies, the video-based method for vehicle counting shows great importance and huge advantages in its low cost, high efficiency, and flexibility. However, many methods find difficulty in balancing the accuracy and complexity of the algorithm. For example, compared with traditional and simple methods, deep learning methods may achieve higher precision, but they also greatly increase the complexity of the algorithm. In addition to that, most of the methods only work under one mode of color, which is a waste of available information. Considering the above, a multi-loop vehicle-counting method under gray mode and RGB mode was proposed in this paper. Under gray and RGB modes, the moving vehicle can be detected more completely; with the help of multiple loops, vehicle counting could better deal with different influencing factors, such as driving behavior, traffic environment, shooting angle, etc. The experimental results show that the proposed method is able to count vehicles with more than 98.5% accuracy while dealing with different road scenes.


Author(s):  
Shuai Ling ◽  
Shoufeng Ma ◽  
Ning Jia

AbstractThe rapid development of economics requires highly efficient and environment-friendly urban transportation systems. Such requirement presents challenges in sustainable urban transportation. The analysis and understanding of transportation-related behaviors provide one approach to dealing with complicated transportation activities. In this study, the management of traffic systems is divided into four levels with a structural and systematic perspective. Then, several special cases from the perspective of behavior, including purchasing behaviors toward new energy vehicles, choice behaviors toward green travel, and behavioral reactions toward transportation demand management policies, are investigated. Several management suggestions are proposed for transportation authorities to improve sustainable traffic management.


2012 ◽  
Vol 6-7 ◽  
pp. 783-789
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Dong ◽  
Tian Yang Dong ◽  
Jia Jie Yao ◽  
Ling Zhang

With the rapid development of smart-phone applications, how to make the ordering process via smart-phones more convenient and intelligent has become a hotspot. This paper puts forward a method of restaurant dish recommendation relying on position information and association rules. In addition, this paper has designed and developed a restaurant recommendation system based on mobile phone. The system would fetch the real-time location information via smart-phones, and provide customers personalized restaurant and dish recommendation service. According to the related applications, this system can successfully recommend the related restaurants and food information to customers.


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