On 16 July 2024, consortium leader Valeo invited the DEKOR-X project partners to the 6th quarterly meeting at the research and development site in Kronach-Neuses.
This time, the meeting was also marked by a mid-term review: since January 2023, the project teams have been conducting intensive research to make decentralised communication at intersections a reality. The meeting showed how much has already been achieved in this time:
Consortium leader Valeo and Coburg University of Applied Sciences presented the closed test intersection ready for use. This intersection will be used to test and optimise the three research scenarios under controlled conditions. Following the completion of the equipping of the public test intersection in March of this year, both test intersections are now ready for operation. An important step for conducting practice-based tests.
The development team of Continental Automotive has already completed numerous test drives at the public test intersection in Kronach. The central objective is to investigate how decentralised communication and sensor technology can be used to reduce the risk posed by intersections. Numerous test drives have already been successfully completed and the test results obtained will be incorporated into further project work.
Project partner Denso focused on the topics of perception and fusion algorithms. The project partner completed an initial version of the localisation module as a ROS2 node as part of the ‘Automated driving with distributed sensor technology’ project module.
The Professorship Communiactions Engineering of Chemnitz University of Technology presented the initial results of a series of test measurements carried out with intelligent sensor vehicles in the run-up to the meeting. Its scientists are researching new methods for decentralised sensor data fusion in the project.
After the meeting, the participants had the opportunity to visit the public test intersection.
Respectable results after 18 months of project work.
