Cooperative Driving Experiments Based on a 3D Components Environment

Abstract

Microscopic traffic simulations are considered to experiment the performance of connected vehicles operations such as observing the behaviour of several vehicles within a shared environment; nevertheless, many of them lack important details of the vehicles’ motion in order to optimize the accuracy of performance measurements. This paper presents the design of an experimentation environment in three dimensions to incorporate vehicles’ kinematic variables to consider accurately the vehicles movements such as lane changes and cross intersections. Knowing the precise angle of the steering wheel and the wheel rotation proves to be important to evaluate the performance of the cooperative driving. The proposed experimentation environment serves as a platform to be integrated with a multiagent system for cooperative driving to test the performance of scenarios related to potential collisions.