Car-to-car communications research receives funding, collaboration from Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Aligned with its goal of being an active collaborator in the automotive research community, Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA is supporting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications research at The Ohio State University.
The Mountain View, California-based research lab is focused on finding and creating information technology discoveries and business models. Since 2013, the company has funded innovative vehicular full-duplex communications research occurring in the labs of Computer Science and Engineering Professors Prasun Sinha and Kannan Srinivasan.
According to Toyota InfoTechnology Center Senior Researcher Gaurav Bansal, the collaboration with Ohio State is mutually beneficial.
“Profs. Sinha and Srinivasan are pioneers in the field of full-duplex communications,” said Bansal. “Collaborating with their team resulted in building a functional prototype of V2V full-duplex system. I believe we conducted the world’s first bi-directional data transfer between moving cars using full-duplex technology”
While the two professors have led the project, their six PhD students—Arjun Bakshi, Lu Chen, Tanmoy Das, Rupam Kundu, Wuwei Lan and Wenjie Zhou—have played critical roles in developing the concepts and carrying out real experiments.
“Working closely with a leading automotive manufacturer has prompted our research team to think out-of-the-box,” said Professor Sinha, “and ultimately develop practical solutions that can be demonstrated to lead to safer roadways.”