Vulnerable Road User Safety for Intelligent Transportation System

2021 COE Engineering Design Project (MJ06)

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Faculty Lab Coordinator

Muhammad Jaseemuddin

Topic Category

Distributed Systems and Networking

Preamble

Road safety is an important aspect of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) are pedestrians, bicycle (all its electrical and non-electrical versions) and wheelchair users etc. that need protection from vehicles. Road accidents have reduced partly due to driver assistance technology, but it still counts a significant casualties of road users. The number of VRUs have been increasing as more people tend to walk or bike due to health and environmental reasons. The safety measures of VRUs include warning system design including VRUs, road infrastructure and vehicle.

Objective

In this project, you will design and implement a VRU safety system (VRUSS). 5GAA (5g automotive association) has published a white paper, Vulnerable Road User Protection, which outlined three use cases. The VRUSS involves warning generation and propagation to the vehicles, interaction with VRUs through mobile apps, and roadside infrastructure consisting of roadside units (RSUs), their network and connection to the edge cloud. You need to implement a prototype system using as mall-scale vehicular network with one or two smart cars and one or two RSUs. You need to develop procedures/protocols for V2P, V2I and V2V (optional) communication. You can connect the RSU to the Edge Cloud (optional).

Partial Specifications

• Microcontrollers or Raspberry Pi type devices.
• Remote control cars.
• A Linux Computer.

Suggested Approach

• Learn sensor node, its development environment, device interfaces.
• Learn system and network programming, Android development.
• Use Python and open-source software.

Group Responsibilities

• All students will be involved in the design phase.
• All students will be involved in integration and testing.
• All students will be involved in demo set up and performance evaluation.

Student A Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of car control system and hardware and software.
• Lead the demo design.

Student B Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of RSU.
• Lead the demo set up.

Student C Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of VRU.
• Lead the design and implementation of VRU app.

Student D Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of V2X (V2P and V2I) communication.
• Lead the testing and performance evaluation.

Course Co-requisites

COE718 and COE768. (Recommended)

To ALL EDP Students

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, in the event University is not open for in-class/in-lab activities during the Winter term, your EDP topic specifications, requirements, implementations, and assessment methods will be adjusted by your FLCs at their discretion.