A collaborative approach to autonomous single intersection control

The evolution of mobile communication devices and communication technologies has fostered a growing interest in location-aware systems and services. One of the key features of these new emerging technologies is collaborative driving as a subcomponent of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The paper proposes a system for controlling the traffic in an intersection using a collaborative technique. Each vehicle is equipped with Wi-Fi and a data acquisition (DAQ) system. The vehicle localization problem is solved using a triangulation algorithm and the received signal strength indicator (RSSI). The crossroad is modeled as a wireless sensor network with one coordinator node and three access points which will allow the vehicle to communicate with the infrastructure nodes and to compute its location. The paper also proposes a solution for device installation on vehicles for allowing them to act as active participants in the collaborative system.