Due to the release of several electric vehicles (EV) to the car market, the number of sales is expected to increase soon. Concerning in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) of EVs, different kinds of information need to be communicated to the driver. E.g. displayed numbers for current energy consumption or the energy left in the batteries are hereby critical in terms of a potential increase of ra...

This paper describes the potential of using vibro-tactile displays for automobile drivers. Technological developments in the field of driver support systems and tactile displays, combined with the ever increasing need to enlarge the capacity of the driver's information channel, form the reason to review the possibilities of in-car tactile displays and to identify some promising applications. In...

Autonomous navigation of robot for on-road driving has gained growing importance in automobile research area. Image based path tracking is being considered for future driving assistance. Image from a monocular camera directing in front side is used for tracking the drivable road area and road direction. Vanishing Point estimation has been considered very important in case of driver assistance s...

In recent years it has become possible to collect GPS data from drivers and incorporate these into automobile insurance pricing for the driver. These are continuously collected processed nightly metadata consisting of mileage time summaries each discrete trip taken, a set behavioral scores describing attributes (e.g, driver fatigue or distraction), so we examine whether can be used identify per...

Digital innovation entails the combining of digital and physical components to produce novel products. The materiality of digital artifacts, particularly the separation between their material (e.g., hardware) and immaterial features (e.g., software and data), which is expressed through a layered architecture, lays the foundation for the generative potential of digital innovation. Gaining an und...

With the advances in smartphone technologies, automated detection and awareness of various user statuses has become a focal point of mobile computing research. In this project, I present a software-based, mobile-phone sensing system to determine if the user is the driver or a passenger in an automobile. The system helps the mobile device’s identify the user’s available attention and focus, enab...

The principal objective of this research is to study the feasibility of a real-time, rule-based guidance system for an automobile on a limited-access highway. The inputs to the system are parameters describing the traffic situation, road geometry, vehicle state, and a driver selected goal. The output of the system consists of guidance parameters that command control logic governing the throttle...

Recent changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States mandate substantial improvement in automobile fuel economy over the next fifteen years. One of the ways that manufacturers improve fuel economy is to lower vehicle weights, which has impacts on safety. The innovation of this project is a novel maximum likelihood model that avoids issues of driver selectio...

This paper deals with the methodology followed in order to design a new intelligent system to improve the driver’s safety in an automobile transportation and the actual realization of a first prototype. The results of the study are reported. A simulator system has been developed at the Robotics Laboratory of the “Politecnico di Milano”. A description of the necessary hardware and architecture i...

Application of new technology in building human comforts and automation is growing fast, particularly in automobile industry. Automatic detection and recognition of traffic signs for assisting driver to ensure a safe travel have been givenpractical importance for intelligent traffic system.The proposed method detects the location of the traffic sign in thecaptured image, based on its geometrica...