Section: New Results

Lane-Centering to Ensure the Visible Light Communication (VLC) Connectivity for a Platoon of Autonomous Vehicles

Participants : Mohammad Abualhoul, Fawzi Nashashibi.

VLC technology limitations were defined and supported by different solutions proposals to enhance the crucial alignment and mobility limitations. In this research [17], we proposed the incorporation of the VLC technology and a Lane-Centering (LC) technique to assure the VLC-connectivity by keeping the autonomous vehicle aligned to the lane center using vision-based lane detection in a convoy-based formation. Such combination can ensure the optical communication connectivity. This contribution by RITS-Team won the best paper award during the ICVES conference.

The system performance and evaluation showed that ss soon as the road lanes are detectable, the evaluated results showed stable behavior independently from the inter-vehicle distances and without the need for any exchanged information of the remote vehicles. Further investigations are to be carried-out in this direction.