Simulation and Comparison of Infra-Red Sensors for Automotive Collision Avoidence 950471
This paper presents a simulation and comparison of two different infra-red imaging systems in terms of their use in automotive collision avoidence applications. The first half of this study concerns the simulations of an “cooled” focal plane array infra-red imaging system, and an “uncooled” focal plane array infra-red imaging system. This is done using the United States Army's Tank-Automotive Command Thermal Image Model - (TTIM). Visual images of automobiles - as seen through a forward looking infra-red sensor - are generated, by using TTIM, under a variety of viewing range, and rain conditions. The second half of the study focuses on a comparison between the two simulated sensors. This comparison is undertaken from the standpoint of the ability of a human observer to detect potential (collision) targets, when seeing through the two different sensors. A measure of the target's detectability is derived for each sensor by using the United States Army's Tank-Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center Visual Model (TVM).
Citation: Lakshmanan, S., Meitzler, T., Sohn, E., and Gerhart, G., "Simulation and Comparison of Infra-Red Sensors for Automotive Collision Avoidence," SAE Technical Paper 950471, 1995, https://doi.org/10.4271/950471. Download Citation
Author(s):
Sridhar Lakshmanan, Thomas Meitzler, Euijung Sohn, Grant Gerhart
Affiliated:
U. S. Army TARDEC
Pages: 8
Event:
International Congress & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Ivhs and Advanced Transportation Systems-SP-1076, Sensors and Transducers-PT-68, Object Detection, Collision Warning and Avoidance Systems-PT-70
Related Topics:
Imaging and visualization
Sensors and actuators
Simulation and modeling
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