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We terminated the European Celtic Plus project Comosef with a large road test in Compiègne, involving 10 vehicles and 3 convoys. This experiment illustrated the interest of our distributed data fusion algorithm to cooperatively detect danger and to cooperatively propagate the information.

This event is organized every year in France to explain to the public the research work at the university. The vehicular networks team participates every two years in Compiègne.

As in 2014, talks and videos explained the interest of vehicular networks for road safety and intelligent transportation systems, open problems to be solved and the solutions we explore to solve them.

Moreover, a demo using our network emulator and some mini-PC connected remotely allowed children playing by exchanging voice messages when vehicles are close in the map. As the voice messages are forwarded from vehicles to vehicles, funny situations appeared.

This year, we also added the possibility to send road alerts to friends, including banana… These alerts appeared on the maps of other vehicles and also on the web. These days, it seemed that the roads around the university were plenty of banana, snow, storm, heavy rain… at least according to the Airplug web site!

We organized the mid-term review workshop of the European Celtic-Plus project Comosef in Compiègne.

This photo shows the remote mode of the Airplug Software Suite with the vehicular network emulator. A PC runs the emulator Airplug-emu, displayed in the large screen (using a video-projector). The mini-PC run some Airplug applications, connected to the emulator using the remote mode. A connection between two mini-PC is available only if the corresponding vehicles are connected in the emulation. This allows to reproduce in lab the dynamic network observed on the road. All communications are wireless, which allows to better reproduce the natural phenomena of WiFi.

Road tests, Compiègne, 30 June 2009.

Platform deployment at the “Fête de la science”, Compiègne, Octobre 2007.
Inter-vehicles applications (chat, alert…) between two vehicles plus a stand. Explanations of routing for computers, fixed phones, mobile phones and vehicular networks.

Joint road tests using 6 vehicles, Compiègne, 26 March 2007

Road tests in Compiègne, 26 October 2006

Road tests on the Michelin Circuit, Clermont Ferrant, France (March 2005)