Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Tato bakalářská práce popisuje funkce pokročilých asistenčních systémů řidiče. Tyto systémy slouží ke zvýšení bezpečnosti všech účastníků silničního provozu. Práce se věnuje rozdělení asistenčních systémů, popisu snímačů, které tyto systémy využívají, ale hlavní část práce se zabývá popisem jednotlivých asistenčních systémů. V závěru této práce je také zahrnutí asistenčních systémů v legislativě a krátký pohled do budoucnosti těchto technologií.This Bachelor´s thesis describes functions of advanced driver assistance systems. These systems are used to increase safety of road users. The thesis deals with distribution of assistance systems, description of sensors that are used by these systems, but the main part describes the assistance systems itself. In the conclusion part of this thesis is the inclusion of driver assistance systems in the legislation and a brief look into the future of these technologies.

Egocentric Vision-based Future Vehicle Localization for Intelligent Driving Assistance Systems

Predicting the future location of vehicles is essential for safety-critical applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. This paper introduces a novel approach to simultaneously predict both the location and scale of target vehicles in the first-person (egocentric) view of an ego-vehicle. We present a multi-stream recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder-decoder model that separately captures both object location and scale and pixel-level observations for future vehicle localization. We show that incorporating dense optical flow improves prediction results significantly since it captures information about motion as well as appearance change. We also find that explicitly modeling future motion of the ego-vehicle improves the prediction accuracy, which could be especially beneficial in intelligent and automated vehicles that have motion planning capability. To evaluate the performance of our approach, we present a new dataset of first-person videos collected from a variety of scenarios at road intersections, which are particularly challenging moments for prediction because vehicle trajectories are diverse and dynamic.Comment: To appear on ICRA 201

Smart driving assistance systems : designing and evaluating ecological and conventional displays

In-vehicle information systems have been shown to increase driver workload and cause distraction; both are causal factors for accidents. This simulator study evaluates the impact that two designs for a smart driving aid and scenario complexity has on workload, distraction and driving performance. Results showed that real-time delivery of smart driving information did not increase driver workload or adversely affect driver distraction, while having the effect of decreasing mean driving speed in both the simple and complex driving scenarios. Important differences were also highlighted between conventional and ecologically designed smart driving interfaces with respect to subjective workload and peripheral detection

Video-based Driver Assistance Systems

Video-based Driver Assitance Systems (ADAS) are a promising and chellenging field of work within the Intelligent Transportation System framework. Thwe Grupo Tratamiento de Imágenes is a research group that has an structured view of vision-vased applications, including video-based ADAS. The most important project in which the group is envolved regarding ADAS is the I-Way project. Recently, a first release of a complete ADAS solution of the project has been finished. Its architecture and more importan sub-modules are described in this document, as well as its performance under real solutions. The evolution of the system is being currently carried on as a research line to introduce advanced processing alternatives, such as the networks of Smart Cameras (SC) into the ADAS systems

GHG Inventory Research Assistance Systems

Oneof the important actions in reducing the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission is by monitoring it. GHG Inventory is one of the waysto record all related data regarding the GHG emission. It is important for a country to record GHG Inventories. Research Officers (RO) from Pusat TenagaMalaysia (PTM) is responsible for the process in Malaysia. A system is to be study and developed and it has its own objectives; the ability for the whole system to assist the Research officers in doing the GHG Inventory research and managing the data and information. The Research Officers will be able to record data for the GHGInventory for morethan one baseyear, they can monitor and update the data for any changes and then the system will help them in producing any relevant reports required for the research. The system will also be able to help a new user with no experience in GHG Inventory to do the work as guidance and the information are given to the users. The objectives are definedfrom the problem occurred in the current system usedby the RO in the organization. The data and information for GHG Inventory cannot be recorded dynamically, and the process is complicated which requires more time, cost and other resources. This study has been utilizing computer technology to ease in managing the data and information in GHG Inventory. The system was developed by using the phased development methodology which will breaks the overall system into a series of versions that are developed sequentially. Many findings have been made and new ideas are implemented to improve the system

Introducing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

The introduction of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in road traffic induces many complex questions. One of them is whether or not present legislation frameworks are able to accommodate a smooth development and market implementation of ADAS. This is strongly related to the aspect of traffic safety. The various aspects related to this issue are categorised based on an exploration of the functionality and possible failure of ADAS. Next, some problem categories are more in-depth elaborated. In particular attention is paid to the need for establishing safety requirements to the design and marketing of ADAS as well as the issue of liability regulation. It is concluded that decision making on safety requirements mainly takes place at an international level. However, so far hardly any requirements regarding ADAS have been laid down in compulsory rules yet. It is further concluded that current legal frameworks in both the fields of vehicle safety standards and liability provide for (some) flexibility towards technical developments regarding ADAS, i.e. these frameworks do not contain many ‘hard rules’ obstructing the introduction of ADAS. Concerning the safety regulation of ADAS it is argued that the speed of technological developments and the innovative and specific nature of ADAS technology generate various tensions. These tensions should have consequences for the weight that is put on public and private intervention mechanisms and the relation between preventive safety standards and reactive regimes such as product liability and post-market controls

Editorial Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

The application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), in particular Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), is expected to improve the performance of road transportation significantly. Public policy makers, among others, are therefore increasingly interested in the implementation of these systems. Available knowledge on various implementation issues is growing, but still limited. This is due to the complex interactions between technological re- quirements, market introduction, impacts on driver behaviour and traffic performance and policy priorities. This article provides a framework for ADAS implementation, reviews recent developments in this field and introduces the contributions to this special issue