Cooperative Connected Vehicles

Spring/Summer 2018, Mon and Wed 06:00PM - 08:00PM, 0174 MAIN

Instructor: Dr. Radovan Miucic

• Office: Available After Class ( MAIN)
• Phone: 313-577-3920 (ECE Department)
• Email: radovan@wayne.edu or ah7568@wayne.edu

Course Related Material:

• Text Book: Vehicle Safety Communications (VSC)
• Optional: VANET Vehicular Applications and Inter-Networking Technologies (VNT)
• Academic Calendar
• Schedule of Classes
• Course Syllabus
• Lecture Notes and Readings
• SCORES
• Presentations
• Course homepage: http://ccv.eng.wayne.edu/

Networking Tools

• Traceroute diagnostic program; Visual Route with graphical interface
• Wireshark Network Monitoring and Anslysis Tools
• Iperf: TCP/UDP bandwidth measurement tool (Local download for Window: iperf Ver 1.7.0)
• Nmap (Network Mapper) used to discover hosts and services on a computer network.
• NS-2 network simulator
• SUMO traffic simulator
• Open Street Maps
• OSM Filter
• JOSM an extensible editor for ?OpenStreetMap (OSM)

Manuals for Java programming :

• The Java Tutorial
• Udacity: Introduction to Programming in Java
• Online Training Essentials
• Java World
• Test Video

GPS and Maps:

• GPS: The Global Positioning System
• Trimble GPS Tutorial
• KML Tutorial
• GPS Fundamentals
• NMEA 0183 sentences (pdf)
• How to log GPS on Android (GPS logger)
• gpsd - daemon that receives data from a GPS receiver
• Distance Between Two Points on a Sphere - Haversine Derivation
• Table of Trigonometric Identities (pdf)
• How does DGPS (Differential GPS) work?
• Mercator Derivations (pdf)
• Survey on Ranging Sensors and Cooperative Techniques for Relative Positioning of Vehicles
• Formula to Find Bearing angle between two points: Latitude Longitude and Formula to find a lat lon point, when bearing, distance and another lat lon is given
• Offline Maps for programing

Related Material :

• 5G NR and C-V2X - Jim Misner pdf slides
• Vehicle Safety Communications - Applications (VSC-A)
• USDOT Research Documents
• Status of the DSRC Technology and Applications - Report to Congress
• NHTSA Publications
• USDOT Automated Vehicle Development
• J2735 rev 29
• Security Credential Management System Proof-of-Concept Implementation (pdf)
• NPRM - V2V Communications Web version (pdf)
• NPRM - V2V Communications (pdf)
• Readiness of V2V Technology for Application (pdf)
• 5G Automotive Association
• Applications (VSC-A) Final Report (pdf)
• Applications (VSC-A) Final Report: Appendix Volume 1 (pdf)
• Applications (VSC-A) Final Report: Appendix Volume 2 (pdf)
• FARS Database
• SAE CONNECTED VEHICLE STANDARDS (pdf)
• Overview of DSRC Messages and Performance Requirements
• National Transportation Library
• Cellular_V2X_Communications_Towards_5G
• IEEE802.11p ahead of LTE-V2V for safety applications
• Webinar on C-V2X
• Safety Pilot in AA data (DSRC, 3000 vehicle, ~2012)

Unix/Linux Stuff :

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
• BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO
• POSIX.1-2008
• ISO C
• POSIX Threads Programming
• GIT Cheat Sheet

Related Videos :

• ITS Videos
• Honda V2P Video
• Honda R&D - Connected Vehicle Technology
• Honda's Connected Car and Automated Driving Technologies
• Security Threat Video
• Safety Pilot Model Deployment
• Inter-Vehicle Hazard Warning
• The Possible Problems with Vehicle to Vehicle Communication
• Cooperative Cruise Control
• Paving the way to Connected Automation - Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
• Vehicular Networking: Technology, Business and Regulation of the Connected Car
• Technical and Commercial challenges of V2V and V2I networks
• UMTRI Safety Pilot
• Consumer Reports - Smarter, safer cars with vehicle-to-vehicle communication
• Deploying CV2X Infrastructure for Truck Fuel Efficiency - CCAT Research Review

Machine Learning :

• Stanford Deep Learning
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning (free online book)
• Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts
• Synthia - SYNTHetic collection of Imagery and Annotations
• KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite
• Computer Vision:Algorithms and Applications
• Computer Vision for Visual Effects
• Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstruction
• Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
• RANSAC Overview
• RANSAC Nice Example
• RANSAC paper
• Deep Learning Book(free online book)
• Lecture on Backpropagation, Andrej Karpathy
• Edinburgh's road signs hacked by artist
• Deep Learning - An MIT Press book
• CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Octave (free Alternative for Matlab):

• Octave Website
• Linear algebra review: What are matrices/vectors, and how to add/substract/multiply them
• Matlab Tutorial (pdf)
• Matlab/Octave Scripts and Functions
• MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing

Python (Another Great Language for Engineers):

• Spyder Installation
• NumPy Tutorial on a git
• NumPy_for_Matlab_Users
• Anaconda distribution of Python includes numpy, matplotlib, spyder ...
• Python Tutorial
• Python Tutorial/Quiz
• Python Numpy Tutorial
• Visualizing lidar data (with Python)
• Kitti Dataset
• Kitti Data read me
• Bokeh: allows for interaction in Jupyter
• Vispy: seems great with data
• Python open CV
• CONDA CHEAT SHEET
• My Udemy Notebooks git
• Udemy Teacher Notebooks git
• Matplotlib Tutorial
• Udemy free Python courses
• Udemy paid Python courses
• Great Python Cheat Sheet

In Class Examples

• Python GPS Functions
• class_ex7.py
• class_ex8.py
• output.kml
• input.csv
• simple_polygon.kml
• class_ex9.py
• class_ex10.py
• class_ex11.py
• polygon10.kml

Jupyter Notebook

• Jupyter Notebook Users Manual

Technical Writing Support:

• Grammarly
• Hemingway App

C++ Language

• Google C++ Style Guide
• Google C++ in depth
• C++ Interactive Shell
• Eigen (C++ Matrix Library) Tutorial
• Cubic Spline interpolation in C++

Robot Operating System (ROS) - A must know for Autonomous research:

• ROS
• A Gentle Introduction to ROS(pdf)
• Apollo Auto
• ClearPath Robotics ROS tutorials
• Developing on ROS Framework
• ROS and Python
• Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS

Carla Simulator

• CARLA Simulator
• Radovan's github on CARLA Simulator
• Realy good playlist of Carla tutorials

Companies to Monitor (Aftermarket Semi-autonomous Kit)

• X Matic
• Comma Ai
• Ghost
• Data Speed

Wireless

• Understanding Reflection Coefficient
• VSWR: Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
• S-Parameters definition
• Antenna Theory - great website for explaining antenna terms
• Envelope Correlation Coefficient (ECC)

LTE and 5G

• Basic Of 5G
• Grey B
• LTE Tutorials

Usefull Links

• Covariance Explanation Video
• Correlation Explanation Video
• MIT Class on Systems and Controls
• Radius of Curvature Tutorial
• Desmos graphing calculator
• Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permits in CA
• Available ASN.1 Compilers
• JSON Editor Online