On April 8th, 2024 at 11.30 am the seminar "Open connected vehicles: research directions and performance evaluation" will take place at DEIB Seminar Room "Nicola Schiavoni" (Building 20).

Vehicular networks (also known as "Vehicle-to-Everything", V2X) represent one of the most impacting technological advances for the next generation of vehicles, which will be characterized by increasing levels of automation. Connecting vehicles and letting them exchange data with other road users or with the infrastructure faces several challenges, that have been subject to deep research and developments in the past decade. In this context, open platforms assume a pivotal role both for research and industry since they enable the reproducibility of results, they provide transparency, reliability and community support, and they are a low-cost and effective way of researching new protocols and services.

In this seminar, the main research areas for V2X will be discussed. Specifically, we will present an open simulation and emulation framework, called ms-van3t, for advanced research and simulation of V2X scenarios. The discussion will then continue with the presentation of the DriveX On-Board Unit (OBU) and OScar (Open Stack for car), a combination of customizable hardware (DriveX OBU) and open source software (OScar) to enable research on V2X by equipping existing vehicles, in a plug-and-play manner, with V2X communication technologies and a full ETSI C-ITS stack. This solution has been evaluated in field tests both in urban and motorway scenarios.
ms-van3t and OScar are then employed to perform an extensive evaluation of connected Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) exchanging VRU Awareness Messages (VAMs). In addition, we will also discuss an ongoing deployment of our V2X solutions on a Stellantis vehicle, with a dedicated CAN bus connection, aimed at reading sensor data and transmitting CPMs to other vehicles and to a centralized cloud service. 
The seminar is part of the RESTART project.

 

Marco Rapelli received his B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering (2015) and his M.Sc. in Computer and Communication Networks Engineering (2017) both at Politecnico di Torino.
He took part of FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab), an inter-disciplinary center of Politecnico di Torino, where, in March 2021, he received his Ph.D. cum laude in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. During his Ph.D., he also spent a eight-month visiting period at the Computer and Communication Systems Labs at Technische Universität Berlin, in Berlin, Germany, with Falko Dressler as Ph.D. co-supervisor. He is now an Assistent Professor with time contract at Computer and Communication Network Department (DAUIN) of Politecnico di Torino. His main research interests focus on mobility studies, large-scale urban traffic simulators and vehicular networks.

Francesco Raviglione received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino (2016), followed by an M.Sc. degree in mechatronics engineering (2018), with a focus on automotive and embedded systems. In 2022, he pursued a Ph.D. cum laude in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in Politecnico di Torino, presenting a final thesis work titled "Open platforms for connected vehicles". During his Ph.D., he also spent a six-month visiting period at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, in Portland, Maine, USA, working on a multi-technology platform for enabling Vehicular Edge Intelligence.
He is currently an Assistant Professor with time contract at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) in Politecnico di Torino. He is working in the field of developing and evaluating vehicular networking platforms and protocols, on open source, customizable, solutions for wireless networking use cases, and on network measurements and performance assessment.