Next Monday, February 27 at 1:00 p.m., Professor Miguel Sepulcre will give a seminar entitled “Challenges and Opportunities of Autonomous and Connected Driving: CENID 2022 project” in classroom 1.1 of the Altet building, aimed at students and teachers of telecommunications, computing and industrialists of the UMH. In this seminar, the professor will analyze the opportunities that arise thanks to connected autonomous driving and the technological challenges that must be addressed to make it a reality. One of these challenges is to have adequate tools for research on the subject, the objective of the R&D project directed by Professor Miguel Sepulcre entitled “3D Simulation Platform for Connected Autonomous Vehicles”, and whose results will also be presented at this seminar. This project is part of the research and digitization projects of the CENID 2022 Artificial Intelligence Center.

Autonomous vehicles use different sensors (LIDAR, radar, cameras) to perceive their surroundings and detect objects around them. The presence of obstacles such as buildings or vehicles limits the range of these sensors. In addition, it is difficult to accurately deduce the intentions of other vehicles from the information captured by the sensors (for example, whether they intend to change lanes or enter a roundabout). Thanks to communications, connected autonomous vehicles will be able to exchange information about what their sensors detect and with this they will be able to detect the objects that the sensors of nearby vehicles detect. In this way, connectivity increases the range of perception of autonomous and connected vehicles and, therefore, their safety, since they will be able to detect conflicting traffic situations earlier and have more time to maneuver. Likewise, connected autonomous vehicles will be able to communicate to exchange information about their intentions or future trajectories, thereby facilitating the interpretation of the traffic context and improving both road safety and traffic efficiency. The main challenges to achieve these objectives are related to the design of a highly reliable and low latency communications system, which supports a large number of vehicles and types of data messages. The design and study of these systems requires advanced tools, such as the one designed in the CENID 2022 project directed by Professor Miguel Sepulcre.
Professor Miguel Sepulcre is part of the UWICORE laboratory of mobile and wireless communication systems, directed by UMH professor Javier Gozálvez. The laboratory is integrated into the Communications Engineering Department and is part of the Elche Engineering Research Institute (I3E). The UWICORE laboratory of the UMH is one of the main European research laboratories in the field of automotive connectivity and actively participates in the development of the European standards of the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) for cooperative perception and cooperative maneuvers of future autonomous vehicles. and connected. UWICORE collaborates with national and international companies, universities and research institutes.