We describe a study on the interaction design of incar navigation systems. It focused on a commercial product. Critical incident analysis was performed based on natural use of the system by a usability analyst. A cognitive walkthrough was then performed based on actual scenarios from the natural use. This is a non-classic application of cognitive walkthrough. It allowed anecdotal critical incid...

Pedestrian navigation on Smartphones has recently gained high attention due to capable devices, off-board based navigation software and increased transmit rates of cellular networks. However, most of the available applications for pedestrian navigation are slightly adapted car-navigation systems and do not cope with specific requirements. Thus, in this paper we describe basic concepts of pedest...

Hippocampal place cells encode location of animals in the environment. However, it remains unknown whether the hippocampal place cells encode a continuously moving object in the environment. To investigate this topic, we analyzed the place cell activity of freely moving rats when a toy car was introduced into an arena. First, in a freely moving task without the car, the rats freely navigated in...

Small-scale autonomous vehicle navigation may involve the use of classical or “crisp” sets for control. In this paper, we discuss the successful application of fuzzy sets to such a vehicle's steering module, which results in an improvement in the vehicle's navigational capabilities. Key-Words: Fuzzy sets, microcontroller, RC car, autonomous navigation, robot.

In-car navigation systems constitute one of the most prominent groups of road traffic informatics developments, some systems are already on the market. To evaluate the safety related influences of these systems on driver behaviour empirical research is needed. In a study funded by BMW and DRIVE the authors were to answer the question which kind of test route would be appropriate for such resear...

It is widely believed that road traffic as a whole self-adapts to the current situation to make travel times shorter, if the navigation devices exploit real-time traffic information. A novel theoretical approach to study this belief is the online routing game model. This chapter describes the model of online routing games in order to be able to determine how we can measure and prove the benefit...

This paper introduces a low cost INS/GPS algorithm for land vehicle navigation application. The data fusion process is done with an extended Kalman filter in cascade configuration mode. In order to perform numerical simulations, MATLAB software has been developed. Loosely coupled configuration is considered. The results obtained in this work demonstrate that a low-cost INS/GPS navigation system...

Figure 1: Autonomous Formula SAE-Electric Car This dissertation describes the development of a high level control system for an autonomous Formula SAE race car featuring fusion of a 6-DOF IMU, a consumer grade GPS and an automotive LIDAR. Formula SAE is a long-running annual competition organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers which has recently seen the introduction of the new class SA...

Indoor localization is challenging in terms of both the accuracy and possible using scenarios. In this paper, we introduce the design and implementation of a toy car localization and navigation system, which demonstrates that a projected light based localization technique allows multiple devices to know and exchange their fine-grained location information in an indoor environment. The projected...

Modern cars include a multitude of sensors that can monitor how people interact with the car and can acquire information about the status and surrounding of the car. In two scenarios we explain briefly why such information is valuable and how potential implicit and explicit crowdsourcing services can work with this data. We then discuss what types of information are available and how collecting...