Real-time collision avoidance at road-crossings on board the Prometheus-ProLab 2 vehicle

Author

Bellon, A. ; Dérutin, J.P. ; Heitz, F. ; Ricquebourg, Y.

Author_Institution

LASMEA, Univ. Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France

fYear

1994

fDate

24-26 Oct. 1994

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

61

Abstract

The control system presented in this paper is part of the European Prometheus-ProLab 2 test vehicle which proposes several new significant aids to the driver for an enhanced traffic safety. The goal of this system is to detect and to provide a low-level interpretation of the movements of side-obstacles (vehicles) occurring at crossings. The system is composed of two video cameras and a real-time vision machine (Transvision) on which a specific software performing the obstacle detection and interpretation task has been implemented. The proposed system provides reliable and robust (real-time) control of standard intersections up to a distance of about 150 m.

Keywords

computer vision; image recognition; navigation; path planning; real-time systems; road vehicles; Prometheus-ProLab 2 vehicle; Transvision; image interpretation; real-time collision avoidance; real-time vision machine; road vehicle; road-crossings; side-obstacle detection; traffic safety; video cameras; Cameras; Collision avoidance; Control systems; Real time systems; Road vehicles; Software performance; System testing; Vehicle detection; Vehicle driving; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles '94 Symposium, Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2135-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.1994.639470

Filename

639470