Short Range Safeguarding for Urban Driving

This report covers the development of a prototype low-cost collision warning system for short-range safeguarding (less than 5 meters) for driving in urban environments. Special interest is placed on using small, simple and cheap smart sensor modules that together, form a distributed sensing network whose overall performance exceeds the sum of the individual sensors. A “safety by the meter” approach is incorporated, allowing the system to fit to vehicles of any size. It will be shown that with common simple ultrasonic sensors and a distributed sensing approach, a powerful sensor system can be formed.