Abstract
It now seems essential to take into account the information concerning the distant road environment. This extended perception is necessary to ensure an efficient capacity to predict events and thus to react appropriately. Moreover, information should not be managed only on surrounding moving objects (local perception) but also on both the configuration of the distant road infrastructure and the weather conditions in which the different actors of the road system evolve. This implies to develop and to implement of cooperative systems combining embedded processing, processing on the infrastructure (road side unit) and communication media to make the link between the different information sources. In this paper, this type of cooperative application is presented in the framework of the DIVAS’s project. Moreover, a dedicated distributed virtual architecture is proposed in order to prototype, to test and to validate such type of cooperative application.
Keywords: Perception, Risk assessment, Cooperative system, Distributed simulation architecture, Sensors simulation.