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This paper investigates intersection management protocols under an environment in which all vehicles are autonomous and capable of communication. Three potential protocols for intersection control was considered and implemented as a multi-robot system under the Robot Operating System platform. Although these protocols mimic conventional control mechanisms for human-driving, their behaviour under environments of autonomous driving is different. We found that the virtual roundabout, a protocol under which all vehicles follow the real-world rule of roundabouts without a physical roundabout, is most effective among the three protocols with respect to traffic load, safety distance and traffic imbalances.
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For simplicity, we assume that the intersection is a square.
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Qiao, J., Zhang, D., de Jonge, D. (2018). Virtual Roundabout Protocol for Autonomous Vehicles. In: Mitrovic, T., Xue, B., Li, X. (eds) AI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_70
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