Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2024.3481643
Mahdi Razzaghpour;Babak Ebrahimi Soorchaei;Rodolfo Valiente;Yaser P. Fallah
Investigating Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, we dive into the concept of vehicle platoons, a key innovation in transport systems, introducing a new era of cooperative driving. This new approach is designed to enhance fuel efficiency and improve overall traffic flow. Crucially, the success of this system relies on keeping vehicles at closely monitored distances, particularly at high speeds, which depends on rapid and reliable data exchange among vehicles through a wireless communication channel that is intrinsically unstable. The possibility of improving platoon efficiency through wireless data exchange is clear, but addressing network issues such as data loss and delays is crucial. These problems can compromise platoon functionality and need careful handling for real-world applications. Present platooning models also struggle with forming ‘long’ platoons with multiple vehicles due to the limited range of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication. Quick and efficient traffic information sharing is crucial to ensure vehicles have adequate time to respond. Given the safety-critical nature of these communications, both reliability and ultra-low latency are essential, particularly in platooning contexts. To address these challenges, we suggest a distance-based, network-aware relaying policy specifically for long platoons of connected vehicles. The results of our simulations indicate that this relaying approach significantly decreases communication breakdowns and narrows the error gap between vehicles, all achieved with only a slight increase in computational demand.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2024.3479716
Seungyoung Park;Duksoo Kim;Seokwoo Lee
In this paper, we address the limitations of existing deep learning (DL) methods for local misbehavior detection (LMBD) in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication systems by proposing an approach that combines rule-based and DL-based techniques. Conventional DL-based methods at roadside units (RSUs) struggle with forwarding basic safety messages (BSMs) received from every vehicle to centralized locations and preprocessing them, which leads to considerable time delays. To overcome these challenges, our approach leveraged multi-access edge computing (MEC) connected to RSU to decentralize the processing workload, considerably reducing latency and resource consumption. Specifically, we implemented a system where RSUs directly receive and forward BSMs to the MEC server, bypassing traditional deduplication and sorting processes at the centralized server. However, due to the fixed locations of RSUs, they often receive only truncated sequences of BSMs from passing vehicles, which necessitates LMBD on these incomplete datasets. To mitigate the performance degradation of DL-based anomaly detection in truncated sequences, we integrated a rule-based method performed for single or two consecutively received BSMs. Simulation results demonstrated that this combined rule-based pre-screening with DL analysis effectively improves the overall detection performances.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2024.3481328
Mehmet Kiraz;Fikret Sivrikaya;Sahin Albayrak
The progress towards fully autonomous mobility is significantly impacted by the integration of evolving technologies in connected and automated mobility (CAM). Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our transportation system by improving efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability. Automated shuttles and public buses, smart traffic signals, intelligent passenger cars, and smart roundabouts are just a few examples of technologies that are being planned and actively researched for integration into transportation systems. Sensors are essential in making this possible. This article provides a structured overview of research on the selection and positioning of sensors on- and off-vehicle to achieve cooperative, connected, and automated mobility. The general integration and usage of sensors in vehicles and infrastructure is described, a detailed taxonomy of the examined research is provided, and future research directions are presented, involving solutions for quantification of sensor performance and addressing current trends. The findings of this article also highlight numerous challenges in creating a universal framework, the lack of application of novel machine learning methods, and the complexity of modeling multi-sensor settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2024.3479098
Aizaz Sharif;Dusica Marijan
Autonomous vehicles are advanced driving systems that revolutionize transportation, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses significant safety risks. Consider a scenario in which a slight perturbation in sensor data causes an autonomous vehicle to fail unexpectedly, potentially leading to accidents. Current testing methods often rely on computationally expensive active learning techniques to identify such vulnerabilities. Rather than actively training complex adversaries by interacting with the environment, there is a need to first intelligently find and reduce the search space to only those states where autonomous vehicles are found to be less confident. In this paper, we propose a black-box testing framework ReMAV that uses offline trajectories first to efficiently identify weaknesses of autonomous vehicles without the need for active interaction. To this end, we introduce a three-step methodology which i) uses offline state action pairs of any autonomous vehicle under test, ii) builds an abstract behavior representation using our designed reward modeling technique to analyze states with uncertain driving decisions, and iii) uses a disturbance model for minimal perturbation attacks where the driving decisions are less confident. Our reward modeling creates a behavior representation that highlights regions of likely uncertain autonomous vehicle behavior, even when performance seems adequate. This enables efficient testing without computationally expensive active adversarial learning. We evaluated ReMAV in a high-fidelity urban driving simulator across various single- and multi-agent scenarios. The results show substantial increases in failure events compared to the standard behavior of autonomous vehicles: 35% in vehicle collisions, 23% in road object collisions, 48% in pedestrian collisions, and 50% in off-road steering events. ReMAV outperforms two baselines and previous testing frameworks in effectiveness, efficiency, and speed of identifying failures. This demonstrates ReMAV’s capability to efficiently expose autonomous vehicle weaknesses using simple perturbation models.
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In the context of vehicle trajectory planning, motion primitives are trajectories connecting pairs of boundary conditions. In autonomous racing, motion primitives have been used as computationally faster alternatives to model predictive control, for online obstacle avoidance. However, the existing motion primitive formulations are either simplified and suboptimal, or computationally expensive for accurate collision avoidance. This paper introduces new motion primitives for autonomous racing, aiming to accurately approximate the minimum-time vehicle trajectories while ensuring computational efficiency. We present a novel neural network, named PathPoly-NN, whose internal architecture is designed to learn the minimum-time vehicle path. Our motion primitives combine PathPoly-NN with a fast forward-backward method to compute the minimum-time speed profile. Compared to existing neural networks, PathPoly-NN generalizes better with small training sets, and it has better accuracy in approximating the minimum-time path. Additionally, our motion primitives have lower computational burden and higher accuracy than existing methods based on cubic polynomials and $G^{2}$