Location as a service with a MEC architecture

📅 2024-01-17
🏛️ International Conference on Information Networking
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🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the demand for lane-level high-precision positioning in autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems by proposing a collaborative localization architecture based on mobile edge computing (MEC). The approach integrates GNSS observations from multiple vehicles with high-definition maps and probabilistic filtering algorithms—such as Kalman filtering—to achieve real-time lane-level positioning at the network edge. Leveraging the MEC platform for multi-user data fusion enables significant improvements in both positioning accuracy and system robustness. The proposed solution offers a scalable and low-latency framework for wide-area deployment of high-precision localization services, effectively balancing computational efficiency with stringent performance requirements in dynamic vehicular environments.

Technology Category

Intelligent Robots: Localization, Mapping, and NavigationPlanning, Routing, and Scheduling: Optimization of Spatio-temporal SystemsMachine Learning: Learning on the Edge & Model Compression

Application Category

Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Location- and context-aware Web and WoT applications and servicesGraph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web: Efficient manipulation of static and dynamic Web-related graphsResponsible Web: Machine-in-the-loop, human agency and autonomy
📝 Abstract
In recent years, automated driving has become viable, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are now part of modern cars. These systems require highly precise positioning. In this paper, a cooperative approach to localization is presented. The GPS information from several road users is collected in a Mobile Edge Computing cloud, and the characteristics of GNSS positioning are used to provide lane-precise positioning for all participants by applying probabilistic filters and HD maps.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

localization
automated driving
ADAS
GNSS
lane-precise positioning
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Mobile Edge Computing
cooperative localization
lane-precise positioning
probabilistic filtering
HD maps
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Christopher Schahn
Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
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Jorin Kouril
Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
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Bernd Schaeufele
Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Ilja Radusch
Ilja Radusch
DCAITI - TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS
vehicle-2-x communicationautomotive servicestraffic simulationtraffic optimization