Camera-Based Articulation Angle Sensing for Heavy Goods Vehicles

Information on requirements for driver assistance systems for heavy goods vehicles addressing blind spot accidents

Introduction Turning maneuvers with collisions between trucks turning right and cyclists usually have serious consequences for the vulnerable road user. In the past the safety of vulnerable road users was raised by an improvement of the truck driver's vision by increasing the number of mirrors and by equipping trucks with side underrun protection. Since turning accidents still happen and driver...

Multimodal sensing-based camera applications

The increased sensing and computing capabilities of mobile devices can provide for enhanced mobile user experience. Integrating the data from different sensors offers a way to improve application performance in camera-based applications. A key advantage of using cameras as an input modality is that it enables recognizing the context. Therefore, computer vision has been traditionally utilized in...

Remote Sensing of Particulate Emissions from Heavy - Duty Vehicles

An Investigation of Anti-lock Braking Systems for Heavy Goods Vehicles

An articulated lorry was instrumented in order to measure its performance in straight-line braking. The trailer was fitted with two interchangeable tandem axle sub–chassis, one with an air suspension and the other with a steel monoleaf 4–spring suspension. The brakes were only applied to the trailer axles, which were fitted with anti–lock braking systems (ABS), with the brake torque controlled ...

High Performance Camera-based Modules for Autonomous Vehicles

Vision based modules are essential to realize artificial intelligence robotics, smart traffic and driverless cars. Our research work focus on traffic sign recognition and object detection in context of vehicle and pedestrian detection. Several detection techniques are based on deformable part models (DPMs) and convolutional neural network (CNN) for its foreseen precision. We proposed multiple a...