Poster: A Vehicular Visible Light Communication Testbed Platform for Research and Teaching

The concept of using visible light communication (VLC) for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is attractive due to the advantages of re-purposing existing lighting (brake, tail, and headlights) for optical transmissions and light sensing elements for optical reception. We design a VLC RaceCar setup that equips a suite of sensors along with programmable driving control. We posit that such a setup can be beneficial for conducting controlled vehicular VLC experiments and a primarily teaching toolkit for hands-on learning of VLC and autonomous driving topics.