A method by which a first device performs wireless communication and an apparatus for supporting same are provided. The method comprises the steps of: determining a selection window; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; determining at least one slot related to the Y candidate slots, on the basis of a resource reservation period value set for a resource pool; selecting at least one sidelink (SL) resource from among SL resources included in the Y candidate slots, on the basis of sensing the at least one slot; and performing SL communication on the basis of the at least one SL resource, wherein the value of Y may be a positive integer.

An apparatus is obtained which provides, to a vehicle, information on a road-surface and that on an obstacle(s), and information on the degree of reliability, on the basis of information received from roadside units. The apparatus includes a communications circuitry to receive obstacle information from the roadside units where each unit includes a plurality of sensors to detect the obstacle(s) within a predetermined field of view. A reliability determinator determines the degree of reliability of information on an obstacle(s) received, and outputs a reliability value on the bases of the number of roadside units detecting the same obstacle, the number of sensors in one roadside unit detecting the same obstacle, and a difference value of detecting the same obstacle between different roadside units or that of detecting the same obstacle between different sensors; and a correction term is outputted on the basis of information on a road-surface condition.

Systems and methods described herein relate to coordinated vehicle lane assignment. One embodiment receives from a locality manager, at a section manager that communicates with one or more connected vehicles in a section of a roadway, target lateral flows for two or more lanes of the roadway in the section of the roadway; converts the target lateral flows to a target number of connected vehicles N at the section manager; selects for lane change, at the section manager, a set of N connected vehicles whose ranked distances from a following vehicle in a target lane are greatest among the one or more connected vehicles, when a direction of lane change is uniform among the set of N connected vehicles; and transmits lane-change actions from the section manager to the set of N connected vehicles.

A plurality of prompts, each associated with a road event, are presented on a display upon receiving a first input on an input device. A second input selecting the prompts is received on a second input device. A message is sent with the selected prompts and a location of a vehicle.

A communication system includes a motor vehicle, a portable communication adapter separate from the motor vehicle and able to be coupled reversibly to a control device of the motor vehicle via a communication interface, and a vehicle-external coordination device. The communication adapter receives motor vehicle data describing a traffic behavior and/or a traffic environment of the motor vehicle from the control device. The communication adapter includes a transmission/reception unit and transmits the motor vehicle data to the vehicle-external coordination device via the transmission/reception unit and receives warning data generated by the vehicle-external coordination device which describes a traffic behavior and/or a traffic environment of another motor vehicle. The communication adapter initiates a traffic-coordinating measure based on the warning data.

A sensing method and a sensing device for HDVs (human driven vehicles) under a partial VANET environment are provided. According to the method, an existence sensing module and a location sensing module are constructed, based on a long-short-term-memory recurrent neural network, with utilizing historical information of motion states of a single CAV (connected and autonomous vehicle) as an input, existence and exact locations of surrounding HDVs of the CAV are outputted. The method is not only applicable to sensing the surrounding HDVs of the single CAV, but also the surrounding HDVs of the multiple CAVs. An estimation result of each CAV is firstly obtained, then the estimation results of the CAVs are checked with confliction criterion, according to checking results, the estimation results of the multiple CAVs are fused, and information about the surrounding HDVs of each CAV is finally outputted.

A method for monitoring a data fusion function of an infrastructure system for the infrastructure-supported assistance of motor vehicles during an at least semi-automated driving task within an infrastructure, the infrastructure including multiple infrastructure surroundings sensors for detecting an area of the infrastructure. The method includes: receiving multiple input data sets intended for the data fusion function, each of which includes surroundings data based on the respective detection of the area, which represent the detected area; receiving output data based on a data fusion of the input data sets, output by the data fusion function; checking the input data sets and/or the output data for consistency; outputting a check result of the check. A device, a computer program, and a machine-readable memory medium are also provided.

A message transmission method for a roadside equipment includes the following steps. A plurality of external sensor information is received. A road intersection sign phase information and a road map information are inputted. An object position analysis, a speed analysis, and an sign analysis in object moving direction are performed based on the external sensor information, the road intersection sign phase information, and the road map information, and a classification of dangerous objects in different groups is outputted. According to a current transmission bandwidth limitation and the classification of the dangerous objects, a dangerous object message with a higher classification of the dangerous objects is preferentially selected and transmitted within available transmission bandwidth.

A communication system that determines a context and an intent of a specific remote vehicle located in a surrounding environment of a host vehicle includes one or more controllers for receiving sensed perception data including sensed perception data. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine a plurality of vehicle parameters related to the specific remote vehicle. The the one or more controllers execute instructions to associate the specific remote vehicle with a specific lane of travel of a roadway based on map data. The one or more controllers determines possible maneuvers, possible egress lanes, and a speed limit for the specific remote vehicle for the specific lane of travel based on the map data, and determines the context and the intent of the specific remote vehicle based on the plurality of vehicle parameters, the possible maneuvers, the possible egress lanes for the specific remote vehicle, and the speed limit related to the specific remote vehicle.

Systems and methods are provided for implementing traffic management techniques in connected, but not necessarily autonomous vehicles. In accordance with one embodiment, a method comprises determining a first vehicle instruction based on vehicle-related data; transmitting the first vehicle instruction to a first vehicle; when the first vehicle performs an action, inferring whether the action is in response to the first vehicle instruction; and based on the inference, transmitting a second vehicle instruction with a compensation action to a second vehicle.