Towards an enhanced driver situation awareness system

This paper outlines our current research agenda to achieve enhanced driver situation awareness. A novel approach that incorporates information gathered from sensors mounted on the neighboring vehicles, in the road infrastructure as well as onboard sensory information is proposed. A solution to the fundamental issue of registering data into a common reference frame when the relative locations of the sensors themselves are changing is outlined. A description of the vehicle test bed, experimental results from information gathered from various onboard sensors, and preliminary results from the sensor registration algorithm are presented.