X-CAR: An Experimental Vehicle Platform for Connected Autonomy Research

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise a future with safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable transportation. However, the current approach to autonomy has focused on building small, disparate intelligences that are closed off to the rest of the world. Vehicle connectivity has been proposed as a solution, relying on a vision of the future where a mix of connected autonomous and human–driven vehicles populate the road. Developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as a reusable, extensible platform for controlling connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), the CARMA Platform, is one of the technologies enabling this connected future. Nevertheless, the adoption of CARMA has been slow, with one contributing factor being the limited, expensive, and relatively old vehicle configurations that are officially supported. To alleviate this problem, the authors propose the eXperimental vehicle platform for Connected Autonomy Research (X-CAR). By implementing the CARMA Platform on more-affordable, high-quality hardware, X-CAR aims to increase the versatility of the FHWA platform and facilitate its adoption for research and development into connected driving automation.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITS.2022.3168801
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2023, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Mehr, Goodarz
  • Ghorai, Prasenjit
  • Zhang, Ce
  • Nayak, Anshul
  • Patel, Darshit
  • Sivashangaran, Shathushan
  • Eskandarian, Azim
• Publication Date: 2023-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 41-57
• Serial:
  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1939-1390
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Driver information systems; Experimental vehicles; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic control
• Identifier Terms: CARMA
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01897717
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 2023 1:37PM