CyberTORCS: An Intelligent Vehicles Simulation Platform for Cooperative Driving

• DOI: 10.2991/ijcis.2011.4.3.12
• Publication Date: 2011-06-10T13:26:05Z
• Authors: Ming Yang; Nianfeng Wan; Bing Wang; Chunxiang Wang; Jianping Xie
• Keywords: 0209 industrial biotechnology; Electronic computers. Computer science; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; QA75.5-76.95; 02 engineering and technology

Simulation platforms play an important role in helping intelligent vehicle research, especially for the research of cooperative driving due to the high cost and risk of the real experiments. In order to ease and bring more convenience for cooperative driving tests, we introduce an intelligent vehicle simulation platform, called CyberTORCS, for the research in cooperative driving. Details of the simulator modules including vehicle body control, vehicle visualization modeling and track visualization modeling are presented. Two simulation examples are given to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed simulation platform.