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Automotive research is currently heavily oriented towards autonomy and especially developing reliable vehicular connectivity and localization technologies for autonomous driving. Since existing technologies have failed to satisfy all requirements so far, new complementary technologies are sought. Specifically, radio frequency communications like cellular and “DSRC” suffer from reliability and security issues at mid-range (<100 m) congested driving scenarios due to heavy interference, and sensor-based localization systems (e.g., GPS, vision) fail to provide the required accuracy and rate due to sensor rate limitations and prohibitively high computational complexity. Recently, visible light communication (VLC) and positioning (VLP) technologies, based on modulated LED head/tail lights and low-cost photodiodes, were conjectured to be promising complementaries that can help solve these ... toggle 5 keywords

visible light communication – vehicular positioning – autonomous vehicles – collision avoidance – platooning

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