{"title":"Use of Virtual Reality for Automated Driving Simulation","authors":"Tanjida Tahmina;Mark Fuchs;Chao Shi","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2024.9210048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2024.9210048","url":null,"abstract":"This study scrutinizes the use of virtual reality (VR) in automated driving simulation environments, with a focus on publication year, driving simulator type, virtual reality (VR) technology, and the advantages and drawbacks of VR application in autonomous driving simulations. An analysis of 87 articles from 10 databases reveals a notable uptick in VR-related research for autonomous driving simulations after 2015, demonstrating VR's potential in crafting realistic and secure environments for driving research. The identified challenges include motion sickness in participants, validation of driving scenarios, and simulator discomfort, alongside other obstacles and benefits. This study delineates existing research gaps and proposes research directions, aiming to inform and guide subsequent scholarly work at the intersection of VR and autonomous driving research.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10960597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trajectory Prediction of Human-Driven Vehicles on the Basis of Risk Field Theory and Interaction Multiple Models","authors":"Zhaojie Wang;Guangquan Lu;Jinghua Wang;Haitian Tan;Renjing Tang","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2024.9210052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2024.9210052","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on predicting the motion states and intentions of HDVs at unsignalized intersections. On the basis of a risk field-driven driving behavior model for uncontrolled intersections, multiple motion hypotheses are formulated to characterize the motion planning process of drivers in multivehicle conflict scenarios. Each motion hypothesis is modeled and expressed separately via the extended Kalman filter (EKF) model. These EKF models were combined to construct an interacting multiple model (IMM) framework. This framework estimates which motion hypothesis the driver is more likely to adopt as a strategy. By integrating the predictions of multiple motion hypotheses, more accurate predictions are obtained. Ultimately, it estimates the driver's travel path and acceptable risk level and predicts the spatiotemporal trajectory of HDVs within a future time window.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10960594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jian Chen;Yunfeng Xiang;Yugong Luo;Keqiang Li;Xiaomin Lian
{"title":"Decision Making and Control of Autonomous Vehicles Under the Condition of Front Vehicle Sideslip","authors":"Jian Chen;Yunfeng Xiang;Yugong Luo;Keqiang Li;Xiaomin Lian","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210044","url":null,"abstract":"The behaviors of front vehicles are important factors that can influence the driving safety of autonomous vehicles on highways. This situation poses a serious threat to the security of autonomous vehicles, especially when front vehicle sideslip occurs. To address this problem, a decision-making approach can be used to promote the emergency obstacle avoidance capability of autonomous vehicles. First, the front sideslip vehicle trajectory was predicted by the kinematic models Constant Acceleration (CA), Constant Turn Rate and Velocity (CTRV), and Constant Turn Rate and Acceleration (CTRA) based on the front vehicle sideslip identification results. The CTRA prediction approach is chosen by comparing the prediction errors of the three models. To enhance the obstacle avoidance ability of autonomous vehicles, a novel trajectory planning method based on a driving characteristic vector is proposed. Model prediction control (MPC) is used to track the planned trajectory. Finally, the cosimulation platform of Simulink and Carsim was built. The simulation results show that autonomous vehicles can avoid collisions with front sideslip vehicles through the proposed approach, and the proposed trajectory planning approach has better obstacle avoidance ability than does the traditional approach.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 4","pages":"248-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10823098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancements and Prospects in Multisensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving","authors":"Chen Tu;Liang Wang;Jaehyuck Lim;Inhi Kim","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210042","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement of technology has propelled autonomous driving into the public spotlight over the past decade, establishing it as a strategic focal point for technological competition among countries (Lin et al., 2023b). For instance, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a series of influential documents outlining top-level designs for autonomous driving, ranging from the ‘Federal Autonomous Vehicle Policy Guide’ in 2016 to the ‘Ensuring the U.S. Leadership in Automated Driving: Autonomous Vehicle 4.0’ in 2020. In 2016, Japan formulated a roadmap to promote the adoption of autonomous driving, culminating in the launch of its inaugural L4-level autonomous vehicle public road operation service in 2023. Moreover, the development of autonomous driving in Europe is primarily concentrated in countries such as Germany, France, UK, and Sweden. These countries boast robust automotive industry foundations in the field of autonomous driving, accompanied by advanced systems and frameworks in terms of regulations and standards.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 4","pages":"245-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10823101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the Representation of Traffic States: A Novel Method for Link Selection of Urban Road Networks","authors":"Syed Muzammil Abbas Rizvi;Bernhard Friedrich","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210047","url":null,"abstract":"The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) represents the aggregated traffic states of a road network. However, the uniqueness of an empirically estimated MFD cannot be guaranteed due to the problem of link selection. Instationarity and varying flow patterns make it difficult to select link flows that are representative of the traffic state in the whole network. This study developed a new method for selecting links equipped with loop detectors that represent a particular traffic state of a road network. The method utilizes a metric of heterogeneity characterizing the role of a network link over the time of day. The dispersion metric indicates the heterogeneity in traffic states and the dynamic role of each time interval. It ranks links based on the heterogeneity-weighted saturation level, with the highest-rank links representing the most homogeneous subset of sample links. This study compared classical and proposed dynamic weights using loop detector data from Zurich and London and a simulated network. Sample links were selected based on different saturation levels, and the saturation level was associated with the heterogeneity level to identify the links creating heterogeneity in the road network.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 4","pages":"266-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10823100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extracting Networkwide Road Segment Location, Direction, and Turning Movement Rules From Global Positioning System Vehicle Trajectory Data for Macrosimulation","authors":"Adham Badran;Ahmed El-Geneidy;Luis Miranda-Moreno","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210046","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of road users' global positioning system (GPS) trajectory data is attracting increasing research interest in knowledge discovery to improve transport planning-related methods and tools. In fact, the widespread use of GPS-enabled smartphones and the mobile internet has increased the availability and size of such data. With the increase in GPS data coverage and availability, some research has expanded its use to estimate state-wide vehicle-miles travelled, to classify driving maneuvers for road safety assessment, or to estimate environmental performance indicators, such as vehicular fuel consumption and pollution emissions. In computer science, research has used GPS data to infer road network maps. Although the inferred maps provide a correct topology and connectivity, they lack the essential details to be used for transport modeling. Therefore, this work proposes a method to extract network-wide road direction and turning movement rules. In addition, building a road network model under the widely used macroscopic transport modeling software serves as a proof of concept. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to determine the output quality and recommend future improvements. Road segment geometry and directionality were extracted accurately (case study accuracy of 95\u0000<sup>%</sup>\u0000); however, turning movement rules can be extracted more accurately using a larger GPS vehicle trajectory sample (case study accuracy of 68%).","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 4","pages":"258-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10823099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine Riffle;Edward J. Smaglik;Steven Procaccio;Steven R. Gehrke;Brendan J. Russo;David Hurwitz
{"title":"Application of the Traffic Fundamental Diagram to Assess Detector Performance","authors":"Katherine Riffle;Edward J. Smaglik;Steven Procaccio;Steven R. Gehrke;Brendan J. Russo;David Hurwitz","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210050","url":null,"abstract":"This study develops new methods for evaluating detector health via event-based outputs and existing traffic flow theory. In this work, event-based detector data outputs were used to develop empirical vehicle volume-density curves per Greenshields fundamental model. Through integration, these empirical lines were compared with a conceptual volume-density curve for each detector, which was generated with average headway and posted speed limit data. The detector performance and site information were also used to model a predicted volume-density relationship for each detector on the basis of empirical observations, which was then compared with the conceptual line in the same manner as the empirical lines. The outcomes of each comparison were then used to create a database for assessing detector health within the structure of an algorithm. The algorithm is presented and discussed, followed by directions for future research, applications for practice, lessons learned, and limitations of this work.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 4","pages":"279-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10823097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142918519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coordinated Optimization of Signal Timing for Intersections with Dynamic Shared Through- and Right-Turn Lanes","authors":"Zhe Zheng;Jian Yuan;Kun An;Nan Zheng;Wanjing Ma","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210038","url":null,"abstract":"Through and right-turn shared lanes are widely designed to increase the capacity of through traffic, but they can also cause delays for right-turn vehicles. This study presents a dynamic control method for a shared lane that prioritizes right-turn vehicles at the beginning of the cycle and subsequently allows through traffic to queue in the shared lane for saturated discharge. The traffic wave model is employed to reveal the dynamics of the traffic flow under this control and to derive the relationships among major traffic parameters. Constrained by the major relationship, a linear programming approach to minimize the total queue length is developed to determine the proper values of control parameters, including the shared area length, subordinate signal time lag, and shared or exclusive duration. A sensitivity analysis of the control parameters for different arrival rates and flow ratios is performed. Comparisons are conducted among the dynamic shared lane, the fixed exclusive lane, and the fixed shared lane. The results show that the dynamic control method results in a lower delay for both through and total traffic.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 3","pages":"219-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10695162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrum Quantification-Based Safety Efficiency Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicle Under Random Cut-in Scenarios","authors":"Jiang Chen;Weiwei Zhang;Miao Liu;Xiaolan Wang;Jun Gong;Jun Li;Boqi Li;Jiejie Xu","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210035","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous-scale trusted safety efficiency evaluation is crucial for the agile development and robust validation of autonomous vehicle intelligence. While the UN R157 Regulation evaluates automated lane-keeping system (ALKS) performance baselines through safe collision plots (SCPs) in various scenario clusters, quantifying the specific ALKS safety efficiency remains challenging. We propose a spectrum quantification approach to evaluate the safety efficiency of autonomous vehicles in cut-in scenarios. First, we collected speed-distance data under different cut-in scenarios and extracted essential spectral features to indicate the vehicle motion parameters during the cut-in process. Second, by utilizing Fourier analysis, a spectral analysis model was built to quantify and analyze the vehicle motion characteristics, providing insights into scenario safety. Finally, we created approximate analytical equations for the normalized disturbance frequencies in the nonlinear response scenarios of autonomous driving systems by combining the SCP with a frequency spectrum analysis model. The results showed that the normalized disturbance frequency in the cut-in scenario was approximately 0.2. When the relative longitudinal distance and speed of the vehicle are the same, if the cut-in speed of the cut-in vehicle is larger, the normalized disturbance frequency is higher, indicating that the cut-in process of the autonomous vehicle is more dangerous and may trigger a collision.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 3","pages":"205-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10695163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Deep-Learning-Based Autonomous Agents for Low-Speed Maneuvering in Unity","authors":"Riccardo Berta;Luca Lazzaroni;Alessio Capello;Marianna Cossu;Luca Forneris;Alessandro Pighetti;Francesco Bellotti","doi":"10.26599/JICV.2023.9210039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26599/JICV.2023.9210039","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides a systematic analysis of the resource-consuming training of deep reinforcement-learning (DRL) agents for simulated low-speed automated driving (AD). In Unity, this study established two case studies: garage parking and navigating an obstacle-dense area. Our analysis involves training a path-planning agent with real-time-only sensor information. This study addresses research questions insufficiently covered in the literature, exploring curriculum learning (CL), agent generalization (knowledge transfer), computation distribution (CPU vs. GPU), and mapless navigation. CL proved necessary for the garage scenario and beneficial for obstacle avoidance. It involved adjustments at different stages, including terminal conditions, environment complexity, and reward function hyperparameters, guided by their evolution in multiple training attempts. Fine-tuning the simulation tick and decision period parameters was crucial for effective training. The abstraction of high-level concepts (e.g., obstacle avoidance) necessitates training the agent in sufficiently complex environments in terms of the number of obstacles. While blogs and forums discuss training machine learning models in Unity, a lack of scientific articles on DRL agents for AD persists. However, since agent development requires considerable training time and difficult procedures, there is a growing need to support such research through scientific means. In addition to our findings, we contribute to the R&D community by providing our environment with open sources.","PeriodicalId":100793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles","volume":"7 3","pages":"229-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10695161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}