Heterogeneous wireless system testbed for remote image processing in automated vehicles

Abstract

Automated vehicles will carry computing and communication platforms, and will have enhanced sensing capabilities. Safety around people along with obstacle detection and avoidance systems are key to their success. In controlled environments, automated vehicles can benefit from a remote processing approach to reduce cost and accelerate deployment on larger scales. In this paper we present a section of our intelligent transport systems testbed which evaluates the remote image processing approach with a novel heterogeneous wireless communication system. Hardware implementation is carried out for an experimental evaluation and comparison with the simulation results.