V2X Communication Based System Development: Application on Intersection Assist with Co-Simulation

Due to a greater demand for driving safety, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication studies has grown up. In this study, intersection assist (IA) function is developed to establish V2X communication in a vehicular network. Various tools are integrated into the co-simulation environment to execute the simulation. The main goal is to simulate different communication types, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), so several scenarios are created to simulate V2X communication. In Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO), simulations are performed for the given scenarios which are based on model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach. Controllers are built in Simulink and used to control vehicles in SUMO, while Virtual Test Drive (VTD) is used to visualize the simulation in a 3D environment. Model.CONNECT™ is used to run each of these several tools simultaneously. MBSE section of this paper addresses the first major steps of system specification which are use case generation and requirement elicitation. Afterwards, specified use cases and requirements are modeled with systems modeling language (SysML) diagrams. The developed methodology shows that MBSE provides highly efficient advantages for the design of complex systems in terms of utilizing interconnectedness and traceability. Additionally, V2X impacts on the IA is analysed.