Visible light communication-based traffic control of autonomous vehicles at multi-lane roundabouts

Roundabouts are a form of circular intersections adopted to secure road safety of the vehicles. However, collisions are not prevented entirely even when using roundabouts, since accidents may happen at specific intersection points leading to either traffic congestions or serious accidents. In this p...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2020-06, Vol.2020 (1), p.1-14, Article 125
Main Authors: Fakirah, Maged, Leng, Supeng, Chen, Xiaosha, Zhou, Jihua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents
Autonomous vehicles
Collision avoidance
Communications Engineering
Communications traffic
Concurrency
Deceleration
Engineering
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
ITS
Networks
Optical communication
Roadsides
Roundabout
Roundabouts
Safety
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Synchronism
Synchronization
Traffic congestion
Traffic control
Traffic intersections
Traffic safety
Vehicle-to-infrastructure
Vehicles
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Roundabouts are a form of circular intersections adopted to secure road safety of the vehicles. However, collisions are not prevented entirely even when using roundabouts, since accidents may happen at specific intersection points leading to either traffic congestions or serious accidents. In this paper, a visible light communication (VLC)-based collision avoidance scheme is proposed to coordinate autonomous vehicles in traversing roundabouts, which has high effectiveness in vehicular environments. In particular, roadside units (RSUs) are deployed at the roundabout entrances to coordinate the vehicles in a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) mode. By adopting the synchronization approach, vehicles can pass the roundabout simultaneously if their paths are concurrent with each other. Otherwise, vehicles are prioritized according to their arrival time and reasonable decelerations are applied to waive potential conflicts. Simulation results showed that our proposed approach satisfies the roundabout traffic demands in terms of concurrency, safety, and time utilization as vehicles are strongly recommended to decelerate in only 22% of the cases studied in different scenarios.
ISSN:1687-1499
1687-1472
1687-1499
DOI:10.1186/s13638-020-01737-x