Generating routes for autonomous driving in vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

The study of vehicular networks has attracted considerable interest in academia and the industry.In the broad area,connected vehicles and autonomous driving are technologies based on wireless data communication between vehicles or between vehicles and infrastructures.A Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I)system consists of communications and computing over vehicles and related infrastructures.In such a system,wireless sensors are installed in some selected points along roads or driving areas.In autonomous driving,it is crucial for a vehicle to figure out the ideal routes by the communications between its equipped sensors and infrastructures then the vehicle is automatically moving along the routes.In this paper,we propose a Bezier curve based recursive algorithm,which effectively creates routes for vehicles through the communication between the On-Board Unit(OBU)and the Road-Side Units(RSUs).In addition,this approach generates a very low overhead.We conduct simulations to test the proposed algorithm in various situations.The experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm creates almost ideal routes.

Acoustic fault signal extraction via the line-defect phononic crystals

Rotating machine fault signal extraction becomes increasingly important in practical engineering applications.However,fault signals with low signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs)are difficult to extract,especially at the early stage of fault diagnosis.In this paper,2D line-defect phononic crystals(PCs)consisting of periodic acrylic tubes with slit are proposed for weak signal detection.The defect band,namely,the formed resonance band of line-defect PCs enables the incident acoustic wave at the resonance frequency to be trapped and enhanced at the resonance cavity.The noise can be filtered by the band gap.As a result,fault signals with high SNRs can be obtained for fault feature extraction.The effectiveness of weak harmonic and periodic impulse signal detection via line-defect PCs are investigated in numerical and experimental studies.All the numerical and experimental results indicate that line-defect PCs can be well used for extracting weak harmonic and periodic impulse signals.This work will provide potential for extracting weak signals in many practical engineering applications.