Towards a Realistic Simulation Framework for Vehicular Platooning Applications
This work addresses the validation challenges for vehicular platooning applications, which is incremental as it combines existing tools.
The authors tackled the need for realistic simulation tools for cooperative vehicle platooning by proposing a framework that integrates Gazebo, OMNeT++, and ROS to simulate autonomous platoons and their control.
Cooperative vehicle platooning applications increasingly demand realistic simulation tools to ease their validation and to bridge the gap between development and real-world deployment. However, their complexity and cost often hinder its validation in the real world. In this paper, we propose a realistic simulation framework for vehicular platoons that integrates Gazebo with OMNeT++ over Robot Operating System (ROS) to support the simulation of realistic scenarios of autonomous vehicular platoons and their cooperative control.