Platooning control using visible light communications: A feasibility study

The major benefits of driving vehicles in controlled close formations such as platoons are that of increasing traffic fluidity and reducing air pollution. While Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications is requisite for platooning stability, the existing radio communications technologies (e.g., the IEEE 802.11p) suffer from poor performance in highly dense road scenarios, which are exactly to be created by platooning. This paper studies the applicability of visible light communications (VLC) system for information exchange between the platoon members. A complete VLC model is built enabling precise calculations of Bit-Error-Rate (BER) affected by inter-vehicle distance, background noise, incidence angle and receiver electrical bandwidth. Based on the authors' analytical model, the optical parameters suiting platooning application are defined. Finally, a SIMULINK model is developed to study the performances of a platooning longitudinal and lateral control, where VLC is used for V2V information exchange. The authors' study demonstrates the feasibility of VLC-based platooning control even in the presence of optical noise at significant levels and up to a certain road curvature.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2013.6728448
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• Authors:
  • Abualhoul, M Y
  • Marouf, M
  • Shagdar, O
  • Nashashibi, F
• Conference:
  • 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
  • Location: The Hague , Netherlands
  • Date: 2013-10-6 to 2013-10-9
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1535-1540
• Monograph Title: 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2013)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feasibility analysis; Traffic platooning; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Identifier Terms: Matlab/SIMULINK (Computer program)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Visible light communications
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01562913
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781479929146
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 14 2015 12:42PM