The economic challenges and environmental imperatives facing the trucking and automobile industries today all point to a pressing need to improve fuel efficiency. Due to increasing volatility of fuel ....
This paper presents the method of detecting driver's drowsiness level from the facial expression. The motivation for this research is to realize the novel safety system which can detect the driver's s....
The safety of vehicle driving is within the focus of automotive development. In this work, an approach realizing cognitive awareness is introduced for automotive applications. The advantage of the app....
This paper presents a proof of concept for an algorithm to determine the attitude of a multi-layer laser rangefinder or LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) relative to a reference frame given the abil....
Pre-Crash Systems (PCS) integrate the features of active and passive safety systems to reduce both crash and injury severity. Upon detection of an impending collision, PCS can provide an early warning....
This paper presents the design and development of a prototype Head-Up Display (HUD) interface that offer early notification warnings of potential collisions under unfavourable weather and traffic cond....
Increasing electronics content, growing computing power, and proliferation of opportunities for information connectivity (through improved sensors, GPS, road and traffic information systems, wireless ....
The SKY Project (Start ITS from Kanagawa, Yokohama) was launched in October 2004 in Yokohama, Japan in order to contribute to the local community by reducing traffic accidents and congestion. SKY is a....
Vehicle steering control can provide assistance to drivers for lane keeping, automated trajectory following, or more extreme evasive maneuvers. An active torque control steering system is designed usi....
In contrast to driver assistance systems focused on the vehicle-navigation or stabilization problems, the study of the loop-oriented interaction between driver, vehicle, and environment has been focus....
According to the process that a new driver becomes a low skill level driver and finally a skilled driver from learning how to drive, especially in light of the understanding on the vehicle lateral dyn....