International ICST Workshop on Dedicated Short Range Communications

Research Article

Analysis of Information Fusion for Low Cost, Precise and Reliable Vehicular Cooperative Positioning with DSRC

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_40,
        author={Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik and Allison Kealy and Samsung Lim and Andrew Dempster},
        title={Analysis of Information Fusion for Low Cost, Precise and Reliable Vehicular Cooperative Positioning with DSRC},
        proceedings={International ICST Workshop on Dedicated Short Range Communications},
        proceedings_a={DSRC},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={DSRC Cooperative Positioning Cramer Rao Lower Bound GPS outage Information Fusion Positioning error Network Localization},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_40}
    }
    
  • Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik
    Allison Kealy
    Samsung Lim
    Andrew Dempster
    Year: 2012
    Analysis of Information Fusion for Low Cost, Precise and Reliable Vehicular Cooperative Positioning with DSRC
    DSRC
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_40
Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik1,*, Allison Kealy2,*, Samsung Lim1,*, Andrew Dempster1,*
  • 1: The University of New South Wales
  • 2: The University of Melbourne
*Contact email: mahmoud.e@unsw.edu.au, allison.kealy@umelb.edu.au, s.lim@unsw.edu.au, a.dempster@unde.edu.au

Abstract

Information from digital maps and measurements from a low cost digital compass and the vehicle ABS odometer can be fused with those available from an onboard GPS receiver to bridge the outages frequently experienced by GPS when navigating in urban environments. This fusion strategy can also be used to improve the positioning accuracy of GPS. The emergence of infrastructure such as dedicated short range communications (DSRC) allows us to establish ad hoc vehicular networks in which range measurements between the moving vehicles can be measured and included as part of the integrated positioning solution. All these information sources together form a platform for robust position estimation that can meet the strict performance requirements of a range of road safety systems and services. In this paper, a Cramer Rao Lower Bound analysis is performed to describe the performance of such a comprehensive cooperative positioning system.