FORWARD COLLISON AVOIDANCE

Safety types
 Automobile safety classified into Active Safety and Passive safety
 The types of active safety are
o Anti-Braking System
o Electronic steering Control
 Yaw rate
 Steering angle
o Traction Control System
 Lower RPM
 Higher Torque
o Cruise Control
o Adaptive cruise Control
 Forward collision avoidance system falls under active safety and suggested to use
following sensors
o RADAR
 Suggested microcontroller manufacturers
o Microchip
o Freescale
o Texas Instruments

Method implemented by the automotive companies

Audi 8 [Bosch Collaboration ]

• Premium brake control system, the Audi A8 features

– two long-range radar sensors,

– which are housed at the left and right of the front bumper.
• These new Bosch generation 3 sensors can detect objects within a beam width of
– approximately 40 degrees at a distance of up to 250 meters, and

– can determine their position and speed.

• The video camera is positioned behind the front windshield, at the same height as the
rear-view mirror.
• The radar signals, for their part, deliver precise data as to the position and speed of the
persons, vehicles, or traffic signs featured in the video images.
 Solution
RADAR mimic using Arduino and MATLAB

Figure 1 RADAR mimic in MATLAB plot screen

Figure 2 RADAR mimic hardware connections

Image processing to detect vehicle on front of the car using OpenCV
 We tried to detect car on road using Haar-like features
o Haar-like features are digital image features used in object recognition. They owe
their name to their intuitive similarity with Haar wavelets and were used in the
first real-time face detector.

 We tried to develop a algorithm

o Car tracking algorithm
 For every frame: Detect potential regions of interest
 Filter detected regions based on vertical, horizontal similarity
 If its a new region, add to the collection
 Clear collection every 30 frames