Design and Development of Traffic Light Recognition method for Autonomous vehicles using V2I Communication

Nowadays in urban environments, autonomous vehicle innovations boost road safety and alleviate traffic congestion. The detection of traffic lights is an important aspect of autonomous vehicle systems because it ensures that vehicles can respond to traffic signals quickly and appropriately. However, despite adopting vision-based technologies, autonomous cars are somehow unable to identify traffic signals reliably. This situation emphasizes the significance of using Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication technology to detect traffic lights. This paper aims to introduce V2I communication in the context of autonomous vehicle decision-making at traffic lights. The proposed method uses V2I transmission and heading angles of the roadways to make autonomous vehicles accurately detect traffic lights at the intersections using a nRF24L01 transceiver and digital compass as the key components.