A Cyber-Physical System Simulator for Risk-Free Transport Studies

作者：Prendinger Helmut^*; Miska Marc; Gajananan Kugamoorthy; Nantes Alfredo

来源：Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2014, 29(7): 480-495.

DOI：10.1111/mice.12068

The article introduces a novel platform for conducting controlled and risk-free driving and traveling behavior studies, called Cyber-Physical System Simulator (CPSS). The key features of CPSS are: (1) simulation of multiuser immersive driving in a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment; (2) integration of traffic and communication simulators with human driving based on dedicated middleware; and (3) accessibility of multiuser driving simulator on popular software and hardware platforms. This combination of features allows us to easily collect large-scale data on interesting phenomena regarding the interaction between multiple user drivers, which is not possible with current single-user driving simulators. The core original contribution of this article is threefold: (1) we introduce a multiuser driving simulator based on DiVE, our original massively multiuser networked 3D virtual environment; (2) we introduce OpenV2X, a middleware for simulating vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication; and (3) we present two experiments based on our CPSS platform. The first experiment investigates the %26quot;rubbernecking%26quot; phenomenon, where a platoon of four user drivers experiences an accident in the oncoming direction of traffic. Second, we report on a pilot study about the effectiveness of a Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems advisory system.

• 出版日期2014-8