WCNC18 presentation of the results and main achievement of the EU H2020 Project HIGHTS (www.hights.eu). Take home message: accuracy is important for HAD but also robustness --> HIGHTS has developed an European Wide Service Platform for providing the best solution in term of accuracy and reliability in each context or scenario

1. BEYOND GNSS: HIGHLY ACCURATE
LOCALIZATION FOR COOPERATIVE-
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
Stefano Severi, Henk Wymeersch, Jérôme Härri,
Markus Ulmschneider, Benoit Denis, Marcus Bartels
WCNC Barcelona– 18 April 2018

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HIGHTS CONSORTIUM
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CONTENTS
1. Consortium and Mission
2. Localization Technologies
3. Communication Technologies
4. Hybrid Localization with Heterogeneous Information
5. Architecture and Implementation Approach
6. Validation
7. EWSP
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Chapter 1
CONSORTIUM AND MISSION
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HIGHTS CONSORTIUM
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HIGHTS CONSORTIUM
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Start date
- 1st May 2015
Duration
- 36 Months
EU Contribution
- 6M EUR
Type of Action
- RIA
Countries involved
- Germany
- Netherland
- France
- Luxembourg
- Sweden

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HIGH PRECISION AND RESILIENCE
A crucial requirements for many services:
• Automated Driving
• Vulnerable Road User protection
• Platooning
• …
HIGHTS is committed to realize a high precision location estimation solution (down to 0.25m precision) by
regrouping state-of-the-art GNSS and various ranging technologies, cooperative communications and
advanced fusion/consolidation of positioning information.
…but precision is not the only requirements  need also for robustness
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Chapter 2
LOCALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES
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TODAY’S SCENARIO
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TODAY’S SCENARIO
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TODAY’S SCENARIO
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Chapter 3
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
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THREE CHALLENGES
 Communication Capacity
 any available communication technology shall be used to support the required data volume and delay
between ITS stations and services.
 Message Format
 none of the current standard types of messages within the current C-ITS architecture has been specified
to support the exchange of environmental/contextual data.
 Contextual Information
 most of the information gathered by one ITS station will be meaningful in a specific context, which also
needs to be exchanged in an understandable way.
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SIX (PLUS TWO) TECHNOLOGIES
Six state-of-the-art technologies
 ETSI ITS-G5 V2X
 Bluetooth
 IEEE 802.15.4
 ZigBee
 WiFi-Direct
 4G LTE
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Two new technologies
 3GPP LTE-D2D
 mm-WAVE

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SIX (PLUS TWO) TECHNOLOGIES
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Chapter 4
HYBRID LOCALIZATION WITH HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION
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FOUR ALGORITHMS
 Cholesky MDS
 To create the so called Edge-Gramian Kernel (EGK) based on the distance and (optionally) angle
information to estimate, via algebraic manipulations to finally derive vehicle positions.
 Implicit Cooperative Positioning
 To improve the localization accuracy of vehicles by having multiple vehicles observe the same scene and
sharing information about this scene.
 Virtual Anchor Cooperative Localization
 An “ego” vehicle can consider its neighbors as potential “virtual anchors”.
 Channel-SLAM
 To exploit the information contained in the multipath components of signals of opportunity.
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Chapter 5
ARCHITECTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH
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SUB-SYSTEMS
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DEMO ARCHITECTURE
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Chapter 6
VALIDATION
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DEMO SET UP
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PERFORMANCES
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Chapter 7
HIGHTS EUROPEAN WIDE SERVICE PLATFORM
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HIGHTS
EWSP

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Jacobs University Bremen
Dr Stefano Severi
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany
+49 421 200 3272
s.severi@jacobs-university.de
CONTACT
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27. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION.