2025
doi: 10.12720/jait.16.2.170-176
Determining the Influence of Multiple Simulation Parameters on FCO Detection Coverage
Josua Duensing*
,
Robert Hoyer
- Department of Traffic Engineering and Transport Logistics, Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
- Manuscript receivedJuly 25, 2024
- revisedSeptember 9, 2024
- acceptedOctober 8, 2024
- publishedFebruary 10, 2025
Abstract
To facilitate the currently expanding suite of driver assistance and safety systems, modern vehicles are equipped with a multitude of sensors to perceive their environment. To utilize the obtained raw sensor data, complex models are used. For multiple applications, a model of the position of vehicles surrounding an observer, as well as their predicted trajectories, is needed. Floating Car Observers (FCOs) are vehicles that are capable of identifying and mapping vehicles in their vicinity. In this paper, we introduce a framework to simulate FCO capabilities on top of an existing microscopic traffic simulation. Our framework is capable of simulating FCO embedded as part of ordinary traffic streams and calculating which vehicles an FCO would detect, taking into account, among other things occluded vehicles, sensor range, or stochastic detection errors. To demonstrate the capabilities of our framework we simulate traffic along a 1300 m long stretch of urban street including two intersections. We show how many FCOs are needed to detect certain percentages of all vehicles.
Keywords
- Floating Car Observer (FCO)
- traffic simulation
- Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO)
How to Cite
Josua Duensing and Robert Hoyer, "Determining the Influence of Multiple Simulation Parameters on FCO Detection Coverage," Journal of Advances in Information Technology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 170-176, 2025. https://doi.org/10.12720/jait.16.2.170-176
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2025 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
