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Contribution to the cooperative management of conflictual spaces between autonomous vehicles

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The continuous increase in the number of vehicles has constantly led to innovation to improve the regulation of road traffic. Today, vehicle automation and inter-vehicular communication make possible a new approach: the autonomous and cooperative intersection (ACI) in which autonomous vehicles communicate to negotiate their right of way at the intersection. Theoretically more effective, safer and more economical than traditional approaches, its implementation and deployment constitute a scientific and technological challenge. In this paper, we propose several contributions supporting this development: a longitudinal and lateral vehicle control strategy designed to work with information discrete and suffering from latency (coming from wireless communication or satellite positioning), a preventive solution of the risks of deadlock specific to the ACI, and finally the implementation and testing of a real prototype of ACI with three autonomous vehicles. An exploratory work is then provided to generalize the principles of the ACI, in order to automate and optimize the operations of lane change and insertion.