High precision positioning for cooperative ITS applications

Research Project, 2015 – 2017

Cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) applications rely on knowledge of the geographical positions of vehicles. Unfortunately, satellite-based positioning systems (e.g., GPS and Galileo) are unable to provide sufficiently accurate position information for many important applications and in certain challenging but common environments (e.g., urban canyons and tunnels). This project addresses this problem by combining traditional satellite systems with an innovative use of on-board sensing and infrastructure-based wireless communication technologies (e.g., Wi-Fi, ITS-G5, UWB tracking, Zigbee, Bluetooth, LTE...) to produce advanced, highly-accurate positioning technologies for C-ITS. The results will be integrated into the facilities layer of ETSI C-ITS architecture and will thereby become available for all C-ITS applications, including those targeting the challenging use cases Traffic Safety of Vulnerable Users and Autonomous Driving/platooning. The project will therefore go beyond ego- and infra-structure-based positioning by incorporating them as building blocks to develop an enhanced European-wide positioning service platform based on enhanced Local Dynamic Maps and built on open European standards. Proof-of-concept systems developed in the project will combine infrastructure devices, reference vehicles, communication between road users and offline processing, and will be evaluated under real conditions at TASS' test site in Helmond, with the objective of assessing its capabilities to provide high precision positioning to C-ITS applications. When possible, codes and prototypes will be fully open-source and made available to the larger research community as well as to the automotive industry at the end of the project. All achievements will be published in top-tier events further guaranteeing an open-access to all technical publications produced. The project also aims at a strong commitment to bringing the developed solutions to standardization bodies.

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Packet Reception Probabilities in Vehicular Communications Close to Intersections

Single-anchor two-way localization bounds for 5G mmWave systems

Tracking Position and Orientation Through Millimeter Wave Lens MIMO in 5G Systems

Harnessing NLOS Components for Position and Orientation Estimation in 5G Millimeter Wave MIMO

5G mmWave Vehicular Tracking

Cooperative Localization of Vehicles without Inter-vehicle Measurements

Distributed Two-Way Localization Bounds for 5G mmWave Systems

Beyond GNSS: Highly accurate localization for cooperative-intelligent transport systems

5G mmWave Downlink Vehicular Positioning

Impact of Imperfect Beam Alignment on the Rate-Positioning Trade-Off

Implicit Cooperative Positioning in Vehicular Networks

Optimal Precoders for Tracking the AoD and AoA of a mmWave Path

Position and Orientation Estimation through Millimeter Wave MIMO in 5G Systems

Error Bounds for Uplink and Downlink 3D Localization in 5G Millimeter Wave Systems

Channel Prediction with Location Uncertainty for Ad-Hoc Networks

Multiple Target Tracking With Uncertain Sensor State Applied To Autonomous Vehicle Data

Channel Prediction and Target Tracking for Multi-Agent Systems

Collaborative Sensor Network Localization: Algorithms and Practical Issues

Transmitter Beam Selection in Millimeter-Wave MIMO with In-Band Position-Aiding

Distributed channel prediction for multi-agent systems

Fine-Grained vs. Average Reliability for V2V Communications around Intersections

On the trade-off between positioning and data rate for mm-wave communication

Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Synchronization in Mobile Agent Networks

Power Allocation for OFDM Wireless Network Localization Under Expectation and Robustness Constraints

5G mm-Wave Positioning for Vehicular Networks

Enhanced Vehicle Positioning in Cooperative ITS by Joint Sensing of Passive Features

Novel Algorithms for High-Accuracy Joint Position and Orientation Estimation in 5G mmWave Systems"

Random-phase beamforming for initial access in millimeter-wave cellular networks

Coordination of Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles: Toward safer and more efficient road transportation

Location-aided mm-wave channel estimation for vehicular communication

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications with Urban Intersection Path Loss Models

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