This paper describes the design of an optimal-control-based active safety framework that performs trajectory planning, threat assessment, and semiautonomous control of passenger vehicles in hazard avoidance scenarios. The vehicle navigation problem is formulated as a constrained optimal control problem with constraints bounding a navigable region of the road surface. A model predictive controll...

Clinical symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) can make driving hazardous. The removal of the privilege to drive reduces independence; nevertheless, to protect public safety, medical practitioners require reliable screening tools to decide whether a PD driver should be on the road. The aims of this study were to examine whether clinical measures for PD patients and information provided by carers...

Sharon O’BRIEN Richard TAY Barry WATSON Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Associate Professor in Road Safety Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Queensland University of Technology Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Queensland University of Technology Carseldine, Queensland, Australia Queensland University of Technology Carseldine, Queensland, Australia Carseldine, Queen...

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Tami Toroyan (e-mail: [email protected]). Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem, resulting in over 1.2 million deaths each year.1 They affect all age groups but their impact is most striking among the young: they are the lea...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...