Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

ORGANIZED BY THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL AND RELATED DEPARTMENTS - CURRICULUM 3 - The course aims to train PhD students in ICT and its applications to the automotive world.

  • Date:

    09 JANUARY
    -
    13 FEBRUARY 2025
     from 10:00 to 13:00

This course aims to train PhD students in ICT and its applications to the automotive world, with particular reference to connectivity and automation. The course will be structured into 6 modules of 3 hours, discussing general topics on connectivity inside and outside the vehicle and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), and example applications such as cooperative adaptive cruise control and road pavement monitoring.

The course is for PhD students of Curriculum 3

MODULES:

 1) Direct V2X communications, with focus on ETSI C-ITS (Prof. Bazzi)

  1. Introduction to vehicular connectivity
  2. The C-ITS ETSI protocol stack
  3. Services, with enphasis on cooperative awareness
  4. Access standards for direct V2X (vehicular WiFi and cellular sidelink)

2) 5G and 6G cellular communications for V2X (Prof. Bazzi)

  1. Main principles of cellular systems
  2. Cellular architecture
  3. Cellular generations to 5G
  4. Example use cases for connected vehicles

3) Intra-vehicle communications for self-driving cars (Prof. Girau)

  1. Evolution of In-Vehicle Communication Networks
  2. Automotive Bus Architectures and Technologies
  3. Integration of Sensors through ECUs and Networks
  4. Challenges in In-Vehicle Communications

4) Overview of ADAS systems (Prof. Falcone)

  1. Introduction to ADAS systems
  2. Vehicle dynamics fundamentals
  3. Automating the longitudinal dynamics. Adaptive Cruise Control
  4. Automating the lateral dynamics. Lane following systems

5) Example use cases: CACC (Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control) systems and coordination of multi-vehicles systems at traffic junctions. Theory and experiments (Prof. Falcone)

  1. Intro to Connected Vehicles
  2. Example. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
  3. Example. Coordination of connected autonomous vehicles at traffic junctions. Theory and experiments

6) High-performance monitoring of road pavements through connected vehicles (Prof. Pazzini)

  1. Road pavement design;
  2. Road pavement deterioration: types and causes;
  3. Traditional techniques for pavement deterioration inspection in urban, extra-urban and highway areas;
  4. Innovative road pavement monitoring systems using data from connected vehicles.

CALENDAR:

Module 1: 09/01/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 1.4, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Module 2: 16/01/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 1.4, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Module 3: 23/01/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 1.4, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Module 4: 30/01/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 1.4, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Module 5: 05/02/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 5.1, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Module 6: 13/02/2025 10:00-13:00 in Room 1.5, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna