Toward the Integration of ADAS Capabilities in V2X Communications for Cooperative Driving

Future connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) will rely not only on their own sensors, but also on neighboring vehicles’ sensors as well as on roadside sensors, whose measurements will be exchanged by means of suitable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies, thus enabling the collective perception service (CPS). This will allow CAVs to improve their awareness of the surroundings by receiving from other vehicles information about objects that are beyond their sensing range. In this paper, we discuss the CPS from the point of view of the ongoing standardization activities and of the evolution of wireless technologies. The integration of smart-lighting infrastructures and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is also discussed through the description of radar- and camera-based traffic monitoring devices we developed in our lab.