Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System
Journal article, 2018

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication is a key technology for achieving increased perception for automated vehicles, where the communication enables virtual sensing by means of sensors in other vehicles. In addition, this technology also allows detection and recognition of objects that are out-of-sight. This paper presents a trust system that allows a cooperative and automated vehicle to make more reliable and safe decisions. The system evaluates the current situation and generates a trust index indicating the level of trust in the environment, the ego vehicle, and the surrounding vehicles. This research goes beyond secure communication and concerns the verification of the received data on a system level. The results show that the proposed method is capable of correctly identifying various traffic situations and how the trust index is used while manoeuvring in a platoon merge scenario.

vehicle-to-vehicle communication

cooperative driving

trust

reliability

GCDC 2016

autonomous driving

Author

Thomas Rosenstatter

Halmstad University

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

Cristofer Englund

Halmstad University

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

1524-9050 (ISSN) 1558-0016 (eISSN)

Vol. 19 4 1237-1247

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

Embedded Systems

Computer Systems

DOI

10.1109/TITS.2017.2749962

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10/3/2019