Integrity Analysis of Data Sources in Multimodal Localization System

Intelligent vehicles are a key component in humanity’s vision for safer, efficient, and accessible transportation systems across the world. Due to the multitude of data sources and processes associated with Intelligent vehicles, the reliability of the total system is greatly dependent on the possibility of errors or poor performances observed in its components. In our work, we focus on the critical task of localization of intelligent vehicles and address the challenges in monitoring the integrity of data sources used in localization. The primary contribution of our research is the proposition of a novel protocol for integrity by combining integrity concepts from information systems with the existing integrity concepts in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). An integrity monitoring framework based on the theorized integrity protocol that can handle multimodal localization problems is formalized. As the first step, a proof of concept for this framework is developed based on cross-consistency estimation of data sources using polynomial models. Based on the observations from the first step, a 'Feature Grid' data representation is proposed in the second step and a generalized prototype for the framework is implemented. The framework is tested in highways as well as complex urban scenarios to demonstrate that the proposed framework is capable of providing continuous integrity estimates of multimodal data sources used in intelligent vehicle localization.