An integrated architecture for autonomous vehicles simulation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Pereira, JLF (Author) Other; Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages: 286-292

27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012

Trento, 26 March 2012 through 30 March 2012

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Scopus - 64 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-008-4SA

DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2245333

Abstract (EN): Modeling and simulation tools are being increasingly acclaimed in the research field of autonomous vehicles systems, as they provide suitable test beds for the development and evaluation of such complex systems. However, these tools still do not account for some integration capabilities amongst several state-of-the-art Intelligent Transportation Systems, e.g. to study autonomous driving behaviors in human-steered urban traffic scenarios, which are crucial to the Future Urban Transport paradigm. In this paper we describe the modeling and implementation of an integration architecture of two types of simulators, namely a robotics and a traffic simulator. This integration should enable autonomous vehicles to be deployed in a rather realistic traffic flow as an agent entity (on the traffic simulator), at the same time it simulates all its sensors and actuators (on the robotics counterpart). Also, the statistical tools available in the traffic simulator will allow practitioners to infer what kind of advantages such a novel technology will bring to our everyday's lives. Furthermore, an architecture for the integration of the aforementioned simulators is proposed and implemented in the light of the most desired features of such software environments. To assess the usefulness of the platform architecture towards the expected realistic simulation facility, a comprehensive system evaluation is performed and critically reviewed, leveraging the feasibility of the integration. Further developments and future perspectives are also suggested. © 2012 ACM.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific