Coordination Protocols for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles supporting Cooperative Perception

The proposed project is focused on the coordination protocols for vehicles that try to exploit a cooperative perception of the environment. The cooperative perception and sensing allow to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles over the streets. In particular, the joint use of LIDAR, Cameras, radars, and ultra-sonic sensors permits to perceive objects, obstacles and to understand situation of danger in the surrounding environment. When more vehicles can share data and also the perception of other vehicles the potentiality to discover risky situations or to improve the reaction time of autonomous vehicles can increase. The study will focus on the design of coordination protocols that establish how to pre-process data from sensors, how to aggregate data and send to an edge-node or to there vehicles to extend the sensing and environment perception. The project between Concordia and University of Calabria will be an opportunity to combine different skills and background on connected vehicles and vehicular networks (from University of Calabria) and the optimized network control with safety and security features in the distributed control (from Concordia University).

Faculty Supervisor:

Chadi Assi

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Partner:

University of Calabria

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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