Motorway Measurement Campaign to Support R&amp;D Activities in the Field of Automated Driving Technologies

Viktor Tihanyi,Christoph Wellershaus,Dániel Ficzere,Selim Solmaz,Mihály Csonthó,Gábor Soós,Dávid Szántay,Gábor Magyar,Leander B Hörmann,Arno Eichberger,Tamás Tettamanti,Kálmán Gangel,Zoltán Somogyi,András Rövid,Zsolt Vincze,Christoph Knauder,Patrick Luley,Zsolt Szalay,Huba Németh,Tamás Attila Tomaschek,Jakob Reckenzaun,Zoltán Ferenc Magosi,Matthias Ruether,Viktor Remeli,Pál Varga,Maria Anneliese Klaffenböck

doi:10.3390/s21062169

Abstract

A spectacular measurement campaign was carried out on a real-world motorway stretch of Hungary with the participation of international industrial and academic partners. The measurement resulted in vehicle based and infrastructure based sensor data that will be extremely useful for future automotive R&D activities due to the available ground truth for static and dynamic content. The aim of the measurement campaign was twofold. On the one hand, road geometry was mapped with high precision in order to build Ultra High Definition (UHD) map of the test road. On the other hand, the vehicles—equipped with differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for ground truth localization—carried out special test scenarios while collecting detailed data using different sensors. All of the test runs were recorded by both vehicles and infrastructure. The paper also showcases application examples to demonstrate the viability of the collected data having access to the ground truth labeling. This data set may support a large variety of solutions, for the test and validation of different kinds of approaches and techniques. As a complementary task, the available 5G network was monitored and tested under different radio conditions to investigate the latency results for different measurement scenarios. A part of the measured data has been shared openly, such that interested automotive and academic parties may use it for their own purposes.

Highlights

Autonomous vehicle technology is the main determinant of the automotive industry in our days
In the M86 measurement campaign, we demonstrate the offline capabilities of such a system
Most of the Mobile Network Operators deployed some variants of 5G NSA, in the case of the current architecture and measurement campaign Option 3.X (Figure 21)

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Introduction

Autonomous vehicle technology is the main determinant of the automotive industry in our days. Automated and soon fully autonomous vehicles will revolutionize road transportation [1,2]. This trend is very spectacular, in the background a vast amount of engineering research and development (R&D) work is required, i.e., Connected. The monitoring of vehicles is of crucial importance in this technology, e.g., IoT (Internet of Things) sensors are increasingly used [7,8]. Collecting such data is not straightforward and it takes a great deal of time and money. It is a real problem to measure and validate the performance of a sensor fusion algorithm under real road conditions

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