Скачать или смотреть Spring 2025 Kent Seminar Series: Jeffery Roesler

Welcome to the Spring 2025 Kent Seminar Series. This week's speaker, Jeffery Roesler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, discusses vehicle-to-infrastructure pavement-coded signage for construction work zones.

The Spring 2025 semester is set to feature 14 presentations, each addressing a topic related to autonomy in transportation.

Presentation Title: Vehicle-to-infrastructure pavement-coded signage for construction work zones

Abstract: Construction work zones pose safety challenges due to speeding, distracted driving and improper lane changes. This research aims to improve communication and safety in these zones for advanced driver-assist vehicles through pavement-coded signage on the road surface. An electromagnetic signature was applied to the pavement in a specific pattern that vehicles can detect and interpret. These invisible patterns convey critical information, such as speed limits or upcoming merge zones. To demonstrate the concept, field experiments were conducted in a parking lot with electromagnetic strips embedded in the pavement and a cart equipped with a magnetometer sensor array.

Bio: Roesler holds the Ernest J. Barenberg Professorship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has conducted research on concrete materials and pavement systems for 25 years. His recent work focuses on 3D concrete printing, roller-compacted concrete pavements, fiber-reinforced concrete, microscale urban heat islands, passive material sensing for advanced driver-assist vehicles, and noncontact ultrasonic sensing of concrete. He is a registered professional engineer in California and a past president of the International Society of Concrete Pavements.