{"title":"Decision Making Optimization for Job Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks","authors":"Christian Grasso, G. Schembra","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307383","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Networks will play a crucial role in future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Due to the limited computing capacity of the vehicles, a certain number of data jobs could be offloaded to external servers. However, offloading to servers in remote clouds is not possible due to latency requirements of some applications or if generated jobs are too \"big\" (big data). For this reason, thanks to 5G technology and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), it is possible to offload jobs to servers placed at the edge of the network, realizing the Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC). The aim of this paper is to define a Decision Making Scheme for computation offloading, with the objective of minimizing job offloading costs, while respecting some constraints in terms of processing delay and loss probability. Some numerical results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed solution.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128143882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evelina Forno, Simone Moio, Michael Schenatti, E. Macii, Gianvito Urgese
{"title":"Techniques for improving localization applications running on low-cost IoT devices","authors":"Evelina Forno, Simone Moio, Michael Schenatti, E. Macii, Gianvito Urgese","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307411","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, localization features are widespread in low-cost and low-power IoT applications such as bike-sharing, off-road vehicle fleet management, and theft prevention of smart devices. For such use cases, since the item to be tracked is inexpensive, older or power-constrained (e.g. battery-powered vehicles), localization features are realized by the installation of low-cost and low-power devices. In this paper, we describe a set of low-computational power techniques, targeting low-cost IoT devices, to process GPS and INS data for accomplishing specific and accurate localization and tracking tasks. The methods here proposed address the calibration of low-cost INS comprised of accelerometer and gyroscope without the aid of external sensors, correction of GPS drift when the target position is static, and the minimization of localization error at device boot. The performances of the proposed methods are then evaluated on several datasets acquired on the field and representing real use-case scenarios.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133206872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Role of Explainable Machine Learning for Secure Smart Vehicles","authors":"Michele Scalas, G. Giacinto","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307431","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of mobility is experiencing a serious transformation due to the Mobility-as-a-Service paradigm. Accordingly, vehicles, usually referred to as smart, are seeing their architecture revamped to integrate connection to the outside environment (V2X) and autonomous driving. A significant part of these innovations is enabled by machine learning. However, deploying such systems raises some concerns. First, the complexity of the algorithms often prevents understanding what these models learn, which is relevant in the safety-critical context of mobility. Second, several studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of machine learning-based algorithms to adversarial attacks. For these reasons, research on the explainability of machine learning is raising. In this paper, we then explore the role of interpretable machine learning in the ecosystem of smart vehicles, with the goal of figuring out if and in what terms explanations help to design secure vehicles. We provide an overview of the potential uses of explainable machine learning, along with recent work in the literature that has started to investigate the topic, including from the perspectives of human-agent systems and cyber-physical systems. Our analysis highlights both benefits and criticalities in employing explanations.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130401027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleksandra Rodak, S. Jamson, M. Kruszewski, Malgorzata Pedzierska
{"title":"User Requirements for Autonomous Vehicles – a Comparative Analysis of Expert and Non-expert-based Approach","authors":"Aleksandra Rodak, S. Jamson, M. Kruszewski, Malgorzata Pedzierska","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307415","url":null,"abstract":"Given the rapid progress being made in the design and development of autonomous vehicles, society is reaching the situation whereby customers will be able to access a range of semi-autonomous vehicles. These vehicles have the capability to drive autonomously in certain circumstances, with minimal input from the driver, except situations when a Request to Intervene is issued. While user requirements differ across and between types of users, there is no unified set of user requirements which will be acceptable to all drivers. Motivated by the recent explosion of interest around autonomous mobility, the authors made an attempt to extract, rank and compare the requirements that should be met according to different types of users - experts and non-experts. An initial set of user requirements was obtained, recognizing that drivers will have different priorities and preferences in this most critical of handover scenarios.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131355829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A flexible virtual environment for autonomous driving agent-human interaction testing","authors":"G. Grasso, Giovanni d’Italia, S. Battiato","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307438","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous driving has, in recent years, gained considerable traction due to commercial interest by car manufacturers, that envision a widespread use of self-driving cars in the next decade. Research has mainly focused on specific topics, that can enable the feasibility of robust artificial autonomous agents for autonomous vehicles (AVs), ranging from artificial vision, to automatic environmental sensing and inference, agent-agent interaction and sensor augmentation and integration. A somewhat reduced effort has been directed towards the evaluation of human-AV interaction and in the direction of defining acceptable rules of engagement when AV deal with human drivers. This aspect of autonomous driving will became extremely relevant in the next years as level 5 AVs will make their appearance on our streets and most of the cars will still be driven by humans. To assess, experimentally, how AVs can successfully interact with human drivers we have constructed a lab setup, which can simulate a large range of situations in which human drivers encounter AVs and interact with them. Based on the Unity Gaming Engine an urban environment has been developed where AVs interact with human driven cars, pedestrians and various agents. This setup allows for human subjects to drive in a virtual reality (VR) environment, and assess their behavior during the interaction with other human drivers and AVs. The goal is to define a set of rules that can be applied in AV design, to make autonomous cars react to human drivers, taking into account the behavioral patterns and variable respect of traffic regulations that human drivers exhibit in real environments. We present an early experimental setup, potentially useful for understanding, in a quantitative and reproducible way, how this approach can contribute in designing AVs that are more suited for large scale deployment.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130300353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence vs Autonomous Cars vs General Data Protection Regulation","authors":"Raffaele Zallone","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307410","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous cars operate following specific commands, routines and sequences based on algorithms developed by humans. When they will appear on the market, they shall coexist with traditional cars driven by human drivers. What data shall be available and what data shall they collect about these cars and drivers, and how shall they process them? What are the boundaries of what information can be recorded for later use, and is it possible and/or necessary to regulate the Artificial Intelligence programs that control and command the operations of autonomous cars to prevent misuse of personal data, so that the privacy of drivers shall be protected?.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130850506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefano Feraco, Sara Luciani, A. Bonfitto, N. Amati, A. Tonoli
{"title":"A local trajectory planning and control method for autonomous vehicles based on the RRT algorithm","authors":"Stefano Feraco, Sara Luciani, A. Bonfitto, N. Amati, A. Tonoli","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307439","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a local trajectory planning and control method based on the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree algorithm for autonomous racing vehicles. The paper aims to provide an algorithm allowing to compute the planned trajectory in an unknown environment, structured with non-crossable obstacles, such as traffic cones. The investigated method exploits a perception pipeline to sense the surrounding environment by means of a LIDAR-based sensor and a high-performance Graphic Processing Unit. The considered vehicle is a four-wheel drive electric racing prototype, which is modeled as a 3 Degree-of-Freedom bicycle model. A Stanley controller for both lateral and longitudinal vehicle dynamics is designed to perform the path tracking task. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated in simulation using real data recorded by on-board perception sensors. The algorithm can successfully compute a feasible trajectory in different driving scenarios.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121261348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Musumeci, A. Tenconi, M. Pastorelli, F. Scrimizzi, G. Longo, C. Mistretta
{"title":"Trench-Gate MOSFETs in 48V Platform for Mild Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications","authors":"S. Musumeci, A. Tenconi, M. Pastorelli, F. Scrimizzi, G. Longo, C. Mistretta","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307436","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 48V conversion chain typical of a mild hybrid electric vehicle with enhanced strip-layout trench-gate MOSFETs applications. The MOSFETs technology allows modulating the inner device parameters to improve the device impact on the converter application. Several converter topologies used in the 48V bus are considered to explore how the switching transients and thermal issue are linked to power device performance. The correct choice of the MOSFET switch leads to improve the converter design and the reliability of the whole low voltage hybrid electric vehicle application.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four-Wheel Vehicle Driving by using a Spatio-Temporal Characterization of the P300 Brain Potential","authors":"G. Mezzina, D. De Venuto","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307405","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a P300-based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) for the remote control of a four wheels vehicle, is presented. The proposed BCI exploits the P300 signal, an event-related potential (ERP) typically induced by visual/audio oddball paradigm stimulation protocol. For the driving purpose, in our application a four-choice synchronous BCI has been implemented. The neural interface architecture is made up by (i) the acquisition unit, (ii) the processing unit and (iii) the navigation unit. The former unit collects brain signals by 6 smart wireless electrodes from the parietal-cortex area. The processing unit is composed of a dedicated µPC (Raspberry Pi, RPi) performing stimuli delivery, the machine learning (ML) stage and the real-time classification. Specifically, the processing unit bases its ML stage working on a typical classification problem approach (i.e., feature extraction and classification). In this context, the main contribution of the work lies in the introduction of a P300 spatio-temporal characterization approach (t-RIDE), which allows to analyze all the available choices in a one-vs-all discrimination scenarios. It permits the implementation of very common binary classifiers despite the hyper dimensionality of the classification problem. Finally, the RPi-based navigation unit actuates the received commands and supports the vehicle by using peripheral sensors. As a proof of concept, the BCI operation has been tested on 7 subjects (aged 26 ± 3), using an acrylic prototype car. The experimental results showed that in the online free-drive mode (testing set), the BCI accuracy reached 84.28 ± 0.87% all over 4 choices, on single-trials.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121866687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbara Attanasio, Aurelio La Corte, Marialisa Scatá
{"title":"Syncing a Smart City within an Evolutionary Dynamical Cooperative Environment","authors":"Barbara Attanasio, Aurelio La Corte, Marialisa Scatá","doi":"10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEITAUTOMOTIVE50086.2020.9307390","url":null,"abstract":"The cities are evolving in complex systems that compete for space as much as sustainability. In a constantly changing system of networked things and people, the understanding of the way to support the challenges of a smart city is linked to the enabling technologies such as 5G and beyond, automotive Internet of Things (IoT) and Multi Access Edge Computing (MEC). These enable innovative approach to develop sophisticated context and cognitive urban applications, crucial to increase the awareness of the surrounding environment in automotive fields. To this aim, we propose a theoretical approach to investigate a richer structure of the city in terms of depth of knowledge, to unveil hidden urban patterns. This approach is based on two weighted multiplex networks and allows defining and representing cognitive and dynamical interdependence between urban environment and automotive IoT devices (MEC nodes). The evolutionary game theory is applied to study the problem of cooperation of MEC nodes in a multi-service environment, shedding light on the joint impact of its dynamics and the multiplex structure on decreasing the blocking probability of the MEC nodes.","PeriodicalId":104806,"journal":{"name":"2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE)","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121401933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}