Intelligent Multi-Sensor Measurements to Enhance Vehicle Navigation and Safety Systems

The Global Positioning System and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory at Auburn University is currently developing methods under a Federal Highway Administration project to combine global positioning system and inertial navigation system technologies with computer vision laser imaging detection and ranging processing techniques for highway lane tracking. Many companies in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) community are developing methods for lane departure warning. A lane departure warning system is designed to alert the driver of an unintended vehicle lane departure. Currently, lane departure warning systems use a vision system mounted on the vehicle to detect lane markers. These vision systems are environmentally sensitive and therefore are not always reliable. The Global Positioning System and Vehicle Dynamics Lab has instrumented vehicles and a paved test track for validating the lane departure warning algorithms. The test vehicle is equipped with commercially available technologies and sensors such as a vision system for lane departure warning global positioning system, inertial sensors for stability control, and Ibeo© laser imaging detection and ranging technology for collision avoidance. The Global Positioning System and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory has added data acquisition instrumentation to the car. The instrumentation includes an onboard personal computer for data collection and display, a differential global positioning system receiver, a typical commercial/automotive grade global positioning system receiver, and controller area network hardware to receive vision and inertial sensor data from the vehicle.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/projects/projectsdb/projectdetails.cfm?projectid=FHWA-PROJ-08-0021
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $640000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTFH61-07-H-00026

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Gibson, D

• Performing Organizations:

  Auburn University

  Auburn, AL  United States  36830
• Start Date: 20080903
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20121231
• Source Data: RiP Project 14791

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash avoidance systems; Driver information systems; Global Positioning System; In vehicle sensors; Navigation; Navigation systems; Route guidance; Sensors; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Lane departures
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01485579
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-07-H-00026
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 3 2013 1:00AM