MINNESOTA GUIDESTAR INTELLIGENT VEHICLE INITIATIVE LATERAL GUIDANCE AND COLLISION WARNING 1998-1999 SNOW PLOW DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) along with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) and Altra Technologies Incorporated, (ATI) has completed its first year of testing and demonstration of a magnetic tape lateral guidance and warning system and a radar collision warning system. The testing was performed using a snow plow truck in an area of Minnesota that experiences extreme weather with snow and blowing snow causing near zero visibility frequently. If these technologies prove to be operator friendly and deployed to the entire snow plow fleet, it is expected the benefits in terms of crash savings and reduced delay to travelers could offset the cost of deployment in one to two years. (1) The initial results indicate the two systems are functioning within the target specifications for their operation. The magnetic tape lateral guidance and warning system is detecting the tape and providing information to the snow plow operator about lateral position on the road surface. The collision warning system alerts the operator about obstacles on the lane ahead and on the right shoulder or adjacent right lane based on preset distance and time to impact parameters. The collision warning system also activates a set of high intensity rear strobe lights when another vehicle is approach the snow plow from the rear at preselected proximity and closure settings.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1999. ITS America, Washington DC. Format: CD ROM
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Lab
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455-0220
• Authors:
  • Nookala, Marthand
  • Bahler, Stephen J
• Conference:
  • ITS America 9th Annual Meeting and Exposition: New Thinking in Transportation
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 1999-0-0 to 1999-0-0
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic steering control; Crash avoidance systems; Maintenance equipment; Permanent magnets; Transportation operations
• Subject Areas: Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00944238
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Jul 3 2003 12:00AM