Autonomous Traffic System
Senior capstone project — built a small-scale autonomous traffic network where vehicles communicate wirelessly with a central server for real-time routing and congestion management.
My senior capstone project: a small-scale traffic network where autonomous vehicles communicate with a centralized database to receive optimal routing in real time.
System Design
Each vehicle reports its current speed and position to a central database. The database calculates optimal routes across the network — taking into account congestion, vehicle density, and intersection timing — and pushes updated instructions back to each car.
This architecture mirrors how real-world smart traffic systems are being designed, where vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication offloads routing computation to a server with a global view of the network.
Implementation
- Vehicles communicated wirelessly with the central system
- Routing algorithm factored in live speed and location data from all active vehicles
- Small-scale physical track with multiple intersections and lanes
This was a year-long project developed as part of my final year of engineering, covering system architecture, embedded communication, and real-time data processing.