AI and 6G technologies developed for safe interconnected mobility

The European project, ‘AI-Enhanced Fibre-Wireless Optical 6G Network in Support for Connected Mobility’ (6G-EWOC), is one of 27 selected projects in the second call of the Smart Networks and Services in 6G (6GSNS) programme under Horizon Europe.

The project aims to develop the necessary technologies and design a fibre-wireless optical 6G network that, with AI, can support a connected mobility system in areas with heavy traffic or large crowds.

In a statement, project lead and researcher at the UPC’s Advanced Broadband Communications Centre (CCABA), Professor José Antonio Lázaro, said: “In a few years, it will be usual for vehicles to drive autonomously, since the necessary technologies to perceive everything around them are evolving rapidly. However, what’s important is to go one step further and make future vehicles capable of driving autonomously and better than humans.”

To achieve this, the researchers said that it is necessary for the vehicles to not only be able to detect objects such as other vehicles or people around them, but have the ability to ‘know’ at what distance they are from the car, how fast they are travelling and in what direction.