A runtime integrity monitoring framework for real time relative positioning systems based on gps and dsrc
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This paper presents a three-layered framework for monitoring the performance of real-time relative positioning systems in cooperative intelligent transport systems that support collision warning applications. It emphasizes the necessity of an autonomous monitoring mechanism to ensure safety by assessing the reliability of GPS and DSRC data in real-time. The proposed framework aims to detect potential subsystem failures and provide timely alerts when positioning information becomes unreliable or misleading.
A runtime integrity monitoring framework for real time relative positioning systems based on gps and dsrc
- 1. A RUNTIME INTEGRITY MONITORING FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEMS BASED ON GPS AND DSRC ABSTRACT This paper provides a three-layered framework to monitor the positioning performance requirements of real-time relative positioning (RRP) systems of the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems that support cooperative collision warning (CCW) applications. These applications exploit state data of surrounding vehicles obtained solely from the Global Positioning System (GPS) and dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) units without using other sensors. To this end, this paper argues the need for the GPS/DSRC-based RRP systems to have an autonomous monitoring mechanism, since the operation of CCW applications is meant to augment safety on roads. The advantages of autonomous integrity monitoring are essential and integral to any safety-of-life system. The autonomous integrity monitoring framework proposed necessitates the RRP systems to detect/predict the unavailability of their subsystems and of the integrity monitoring module itself and, if available, to account for effects of data link delays and breakages of DSRC links, as well as of faulty measurement sources of GPS and/or integrated augmentation positioning systems, before the information used for safety warnings/alarms becomes unavailable, unreliable, inaccurate, or misleading. Hence, a monitoring framework using a tight integration and correlation approach is proposed for instantaneous reliability assessment of the RRP systems. Ultimately, using the proposed framework, the RRP systems will provide timely alerts to users when the RRP solutions cannot be trusted or used for the intended operation.