An application of V2V communications : Cooperation of vehicles for a better car tracking using GPS and vision systems

The advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS systems) based on cooperation between vehicles can offer serious perspectives to the road security. The inter-vehicle cooperation is made possible thanks to the revolution in the wireless mobile ad hoc network. This paper presents an application of the V2V communications. The car tracking using the GPS receivers is not always ideal in urban areas. To resolve this problem, our original approach is based on using data issued from vision systems when the GPS signal is not available or has a poor quality due to multi-tracks or bad satellite visibility. The method relies on the particle filter for the fusion of the GPS data and the vision data that will be collected from the loading system in the vehicles. Multiple results from different scenarios experimented on our fleet of communicating vehicles carried out in real conditions prove the feasibility of this approach.