RoadSide Unit (RSU)
Design Problem
Role: Component selection, Mechanical design
Project deliverables: Renders, CAD files, Design document
The future of smart mobility requires innovative smart infrastructure integrations. For this project, carried out during my internship, I led the mechanical design of a Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) platform called a RoadSide Unit (RSU).
The RSU is a static platform which gathers information about oncoming traffic using an array of sensors and relays this information to nearby autonomous vehicles which then use it to better navigate the traffic.
The Solution
I reviewed the available cameras and LiDARs for the RSU, looking at the field of view, range and power consumption.
I then designed two versions of the RSU, taking the various constraints into consideration (weatherproofing, computer access points, mounting mechanism etc).
Due to the summer holidays, I was not able to build the RSU (as ordering components was not possible during this time). Instead, I 3D printed some parts to change the orientations of the cameras for the first version of the RSU based on a mapping system that was already installed on a car at the lab where I worked.