EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON PROTOCOL OF INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION FOR VEHICLE CONTROL AND DRIVER SUPPORT

This paper reports on a communication protocol developed for line-of-sight type inter-vehicle communication systems and describes an experiment conducted to verify the functioning of the protocol. Traffic safety and driver's comfort can be improved by exchanging driver's intentions and traveling data between multiple vehicles running in close vicinity and by implementing driving support and control in harmony. Since 1993, the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving (JSK) has been conducting a feasibility study to confirm the technological feasibility of inter-vehicle communication through field traveling experiments. For this study, JSK has proposed an inter-vehicle traveling data transmission system, which adopts line-of-sight type communication technology and uses infrared as the experimental communication media. The communication protocol applied to the system has the following features: 1) supports high speed data transmission within a synchronized communication network formed by a group of neighboring vehicles traveling on multiple lanes, and 2) capable of autonomous network reconfiguration according to change in the vehicle group pattern as well as entries and departures of vehicles to and from the group. A preliminary experiment was conducted by use of traveling vehicles to verify the functioning of the protocol. The results of the experiment indicate that further system integration is possible with the protocol.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Fujii, H
  • Seki, K
  • Nakagata, N
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1602

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Communication systems; Data communications; Feasibility analysis; Intelligent transportation systems; Motorist aid systems; Traffic signal control systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Protocol; Synchronization
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Intercommunication systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00723444
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 4
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 27 1996 12:00AM