ProLab 2: a driving assistance system

This paper deals with a driving assistance system developed by the French Pro Art group of Prometheus. The system gives advice about risks and possibilities when the driver executes a manoeuvre. It is embedded in a normal car (605 Peugeot of PSA). It is composed by a perception system and a decision one. This system diagnoses the situation and determines the potential or real risks. The resulting messages are sent to the driver via a “driver/vehicle” interface. The perception system determines the state of our vehicle, the state of the static environment (road, lines, ...), and the state of the dynamical environment (moving obstacles, ...). The global system works out in the standard driving situations in motorway, two carriage ways and in a crossroad in a town