Traffic lights system based on RFID for autonomous driving vehicle

Autonomous driving vehicles have become a trend in the vehicle industry. Many driver assistance systems (DAS) have been presented to support these automatic cars. Traffic light Recognition plays an important role in these systems. This paper presents a RFID based system used recognize traffic lights status. The proposed approach avoids the issues that usually appear with the ordinary traffic lights recognition systems, especially with systems that employ image processing techniques to recognize the traffic lights status. The approach provides a high performance and a low-cost system. The paper also presents a RFID based system used to recognize road signs. In order to prove the systems performs properly, the system has been experimentally tested for both based traffic light system and road signs. During run tests all signals are recognized correctly.