An Analysis of Sensor Placement for Vehicle's Blind Spot Detection and Warning System
Keywords:
Blind Spot, Detection System, Smart Vehicle, Ultrasonic Sensor,Abstract
Nowadays, the number of accidents involving motorized vehicles is increasing especially the side collision of the vehicles when the driver attempt to change from one lane to another either to left or right which is due to the carelessness of the driver and unsighted the blind spot. However, the cooperation of technology can overcome this problem. The key element is the ability to detect the incoming vehicle in the blind spot area. However, problems rises when the sensor used for the system only able to cover certain amount of area. The objectives of this study is to develop and implement a device that will warn the driver about the incoming vehicles in the blind spot area by blinking LED and to investigate the effectiveness of the system in terms of the position of the sensor used for the system. The developed system are equipped with an Arduino UNO microcontroller and SRF04 ultrasonic sensor. There are two experiments be conducted. The first experiment is carried out to make an analysis on the time response of the system with position of the sensor above the rear tire of the static vehicle. The second experiment is carried out to examine the time response of the system with same position of the sensor with the moving vehicle at certain constant velocity. The result shows that the sensor placement above the rear tire give a good performance in term of driver notification of the presence of vehicle at the blind spot region.References
In search of the ideal blind-spot detection system. (2004, June 7). Retrieved September 11, 2014, from http://www.frost.com
LaneFX® auto safety series: Top 5 research findings for responsible lane changes and merges. (2010, June 1). Retrieved September 11, 2014, from http://drivingsafetytips.lanefx.com
US Dept of Transportation’s ”Naturalistic lane-change filed data reduction, analysis and archiving” HS 809 702. 2004.
S. Hetrick, “Examination of driver lane change behavior and the potential effectiveness of warning onset rules for lane change or side crash avoidance systems,” Master Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University’s, 1997
S. Singh, R. Meng, S. Nelakuditi, Y. Tong and S. Wang, ”SideEye: Mobile Assistant for Blind Spot Monitoring,” in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and
Communication, Mobile Computing & Vehicle Communications Symposium, pp. 408-412, 2014.
P. Racine, D., B. Cramer, N., and Hosseini Zadeh, M. (2010). A Haptic Solution to Blind Spot Collisions. Active Blind Spot Crash Avoidance System, 3-3.
The Camellia Open Source Image Processing Library: Retrieved September 13, 2014, from http://camellia.sourceforge.net
N. Blanc, B. Steux, and T. Hinz, (2007). Intelligent Vehicle symposium. LaRA SideCam: A Fast and Robust Vision-Based Blindspot Detection System, 1-1.
Nicholas Nethercote and Jeremy Fitzhardinge, “Bounds-Checking Entire Programs Without Recompiling.”. Informal Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Semantics, Program Analysis, and Computing Environments for Memory Management (SPACE 2004), Venice, Italy, January 2004.
P.H. Batavia, D.E. Pomerleau, C.E. Thorpe, “Overtaking Vehicle Detection Using Implicit Optical Flow”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1997
Z. Sun and G. Bebis, “On-Road Vehicle Detection: a Review”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, pp. 694-711, 2006
J. Kuwana, M. Itoh, and T. Inagaki, (2013). Dynamic Side-View Mirror: Assisting Situation Awareness in Blind Spots.
M. Q. A. Redzuan, ”Vehicles Blind Spot Detection and Warning System,” Degree Thesis of Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, 2015.
Arduino Starter Kit Manual, A Complete Beginners Guide to Arduino, 2010.
SRF04 - Ultra-Sonic Ranger retrieved September 22, 2014 from http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/srf04tech.html
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT
The manuscript is herewith submitted for publication in the Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC). It has not been published before, and it is not under consideration for publication in any other journals. It contains no material that is scandalous, obscene, libelous or otherwise contrary to law. When the manuscript is accepted for publication, I, as the author, hereby agree to transfer to JTEC, all rights including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright laws, except for the following, which the author(s) specifically retain(s):
- All proprietary right other than copyright, such as patent rights
- The right to make further copies of all or part of the published article for my use in classroom teaching
- The right to reuse all or part of this manuscript in a compilation of my own works or in a textbook of which I am the author; and
- The right to make copies of the published work for internal distribution within the institution that employs me
I agree that copies made under these circumstances will continue to carry the copyright notice that appears in the original published work. I agree to inform my co-authors, if any, of the above terms. I certify that I have obtained written permission for the use of text, tables, and/or illustrations from any copyrighted source(s), and I agree to supply such written permission(s) to JTEC upon request.
