A novel remote and virtual driving system based on WiFi communication

Unmanned intelligent vehicles become a hot spot of the world vehicle engineering and growing innovatory motivation in the automotive industry. By the Wifi communication, a novel remote and virtual driving system is developed in this paper. AM3359 processor equipped with the Linux is used in the remote and virtual driving system. Real-time environmental information of the car is captured by in-vehicle camera. The car´s environmental information is transmitted to the client by the WiFi network. The steering wheel and other equipments are used to realize the remote real-time control of the car. The remote and virtual driving system consists of data collection and transmission module, system control module, system security module, power management module, remote communication and monitoring module, wireless communication module, and so on. PC terminal is established by a video display terminal, steering wheel, and other control equipments. The remote real-time operating experiments are performed. The experimental results show that users can monitor the operational status of the vehicle and the remote real-time simulation driving is achieved. The results verify that the developed remote and virtual driving system is effective, reliable, and real-time.