Author(s): Karson Blomquist
Mentor(s): Prosenjit Chatterjee
Institution SUU
As Vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology is continuing to develop, it has potential for improving road safety and enhancing driver awareness. This undergraduate research project includes creating a simulation that mimics real time communication between five vehicles within a network using a graphical user interface (GUI). The goal of this project is to explore how vehicle to vehicle communication can help enhance driver awareness and allowing vehicles to exchange information with real world driving obstacles, such as accidents, hazards in the road, change in the flow of traffic, and road conditions. This will help with things such as traffic safety, pedestrian safety, and driver comfort. In the simulation, the vehicles exchange messages about things such as speed, hazards, and blind spot alerts. Each vehicle will operate on its own thread in order to simulate communication. Each vehicle in the network has the ability to detect changes in the environment and adjust its behavior according to what it detects. These behavior changes would include change of speed, change of lanes, or moving position according to a message from another vehicle. A key feature in this simulation is the communication protocol. This protocol allows vehicles to continuously send and receive status and share important information with the cars surrounding it. The GUI provides feedback on the messages that are sent and received by each vehicle. This simulation also supports multithreading. Each vehicle runs on a separate thread to simulate their communication simultaneously. This research will serve as a foundation for exploring other potential applications for vehicle-to-vehicle communication using real world scenarios. Future extensions for this project will be adding geographical mapping and more advance communication