The objective of this article is to present the design method of a hierarchical driver aid which is designed to guide the driver of a vehicle to perform parallel parking maneuver. The development philosophy of the system is based on biomimetic model where the designer of the model does not need to be aware of either vehicle dynamics or kinematics. The developed system is based on fuzzy logic an...

This paper presents a driver performance map of braking and steering in response to three driving scenarios that lead to rear-end crashes. This map encompasses low risk, conflict, near-crash, and crash imminent driving states that correspond to advisory warning, crash imminent warning, and crash mitigation functionalities for intelligent vehicle rear-end crash countermeasures. Specifically, thi...

This paper presents a method for detecting vehicles as obstacles in real road scene using a single onboard camera for an automotive vehicle. Vehicles are detected by finding region of interest (boundary detection) using morphological operation in image captured by camera. When a vehicle is found in front of travelled vehicle then the driver assistance system gives warning to the driver to give ...

In the coming years, transportation system will be revamped in a manner that there will be more intellig ent and autonomous vehicle phenomenon around us s uch as smart cars, auto driving system, etc. Some of a utomotive industries are already producing smart cars . However, the main concern of this paper is on the in frastructure for connected vehicles, which can suppor t such intelligent trans...

Driver steering control performance varies with time during the vehicle driving course. A serial vehicle steering assist controller is designed to provide steering correction that can compensate the difference between the current driver and an “idealized” driver model. Using variable structure model reference adaptive control, a robust adaptive controller for lane keeping assist is developed. T...

Minimising driver distraction is a crucial factor in the design of new driver assistance systems and in-vehicle information systems. Therefore two different driver-vehicle interface concepts for an Active Cruise Control (ACC) system were designed and tested with 12 drivers in a static driving simulator. These concepts differed in the location (steering wheel vs. dashboard) and type of controls....

Single-vehicle roadway departure (SVRD) accidents occur in many cases owing to driver distraction or drowsiness constituting a substantial share of today’s road vehicle accidents and casualties. This paper describes a distraction-based lane-keeping support system, which intervenes only when the driver is positively detected as being distracted. Distraction here is understood as cognitive and vi...

BACKGROUND Experimental studies have shown a decrease in driving performance at high temperatures. The epidemiological evidence for the relationship between heat and motor vehicle crashes is not consistent. OBJECTIVES We estimated the impact of high ambient temperatures on the daily number of motor vehicle crashes and, in particular, on crashes involving driver performance factors (namely dis...

The paper presents a driver model, which can be used in a computer simulation of a curved ride of a car. The identification of the driver parameters consisted in a comparison of the results of computer calculations obtained for the driver-vehicle-environment model with different driver data sets with test results of the double lane-change manoeuvre (Standard No. ISO/TR 3888:1975, International ...

Driver distraction from in-vehicle tasks can have negative impacts on longitudinal and lateral vehicle control and brake reaction time. The distraction problem is wellestablished in the literature, and is increasing due to advances in the functionality, availability, and number of in-vehicle systems. One approach to a solution is managing in-vehicle task presentation to reduce associated distra...