Evolutionary vehicle-to-vehicle communications with brake light and computer vision for driver assistance

This paper proposes a new concept of the inter-vehicle communications consisting of the brake light of a preceding vehicle and a computer vision in a following vehicle for transmission of the behaviour or intention of the preceding to the following. The brake light includes red LEDs detectable by both a human driver and a computer vision and infrared LEDs detectable by only a computer vision. The feature of the system is the compatibility between the current system and the system proposed here. Indoor experiments with a breadboard system and some results show the potential of the system. For the covering abstract see ITRD E140665.

• Authors:
  • TAGAWA, S
  • TSUGAWA, S
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS), HELD BEIJING, OCTOBER 2007
  • Publisher: ITS America

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brake lamps; Braking; Communications; Conferences; Drivers; Intelligent transportation systems; Light emitting diodes; Sensors; Vehicles; Vision
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01151427
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 1 2010 8:25AM