Project Objectives & Goals
The goal of this project is to develop a prototype retrofit system that will be able to collect pertinent data from a vehicle and relay that information to other vehicles outfitted with a similar system to ultimately prevent vehicle collisions. The project will adhere to established Systems Analysis and Design Methodologies and Systems Engineering process discipline. The objectives are as follows:
1. System should be able to actively learn and understand its surroundings.
2. System should be able to communicate directly with other vehicles to avoid collisions.
3. System should be able to recognize nearby vehicle location, in effort to prevent collisions via blindspots.
4. System should be designed for voice communication with the user (audible commands from user, audio responses from system).
5. System should relay speed and distance information from other vehicles to the operating vehicle and driver.
6. System will make use of GPS and other mapping software to collect and maintain location-awareness.
7. System will be established for retrofitting to older vehicles via central console.
8. System should be easily installable.
Project Constraints
This project only involves vehicle-to-vehicle communications. For the scope of this project, sensors will not be utilized and will not involve autonomous vehicles. The scope of this project will be limited to lightweight Ford vehicles at are 2008 and younger. In addition, the bandwidth for transmitting and receiving messages will be at a frequency of 5.7 to 5.925 GHz, to limit interference as much as possible from other devices. The scope of this project will also be limited to mostly simulation testing.