Co-Simulation Platform for Modeling and Evaluating Connected and Automated Vehicles and Human Behavior in Mixed Traffic

Modeling, prediction, and evaluation of personalized driving behaviors are crucial to emerging advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) that require a large amount of customized driving data. However, collecting such type of data from the real world could be very costly and sometimes unrealistic. To address this need, several high-definition game engine-based simulators have been developed. Furthermore, the computational load for cooperative automated driving systems (CADS) with a decent size may be much beyond the capability of a standalone (edge) computer. To address all these concerns, in this study we develop a co-simulation platform integrating Unity, Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO), and Amazon Web Services (AWS), where Unity provides realistic driving experience and simulates on-board sensors; SUMO models realistic traffic dynamics; and AWS provides serverless cloud computing power and personalized data storage. To evaluate this platform, we select cooperative on-ramp merging in mixed traffic as a study case, and establish human-in-the-loop (HuiL) simulations. The results show that our proposed platform can facilitate data collection and performance assessment for modeling personalized behaviors and interactions in CADS under various traffic scenarios.

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    • Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
  • Authors:
    • Zhao, Xuanpeng
    • Liao, Xishun
    • Wang, Ziran
    • Wu, Guoyuan
    • Barth, Matthew
    • Han, Kyungtae
    • Tiwari, Prashant
  • Publication Date: 2022-4-21

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  • Accession Number: 01845557
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: SAE International
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 12-05-04-0025
  • Files: TRIS, SAE
  • Created Date: May 17 2022 1:27PM