A Functional Virtual Prototyping full vehicle model for a tri-axial heavy-duty truck is built, and the nonlinearity of suspension dampers and tires is also considered. With the trajectory of full vehicle gravity center, longitudinal tire force of front wheel, longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration, yaw rate and pitch angle as the evaluation indexes of brake property, the influences of ...

The concept of an algorithm developed for the segmentation of a road border from the content of an image produced by TV camera mounted on a moving vehicle is presented. The extraction of a road boundary is an important step in the context of autonomous vehicle guidance. The segmentation algorithm combines statistical texture descriptors and the ones based on gray level co-occurrence matrix.

Road accidents claim a staggeringly high number of lives every year. From drunk driving, rash driving and driver distraction to visual impairment, over speeding and over-crowding of vehicles, the majority of road accidents occur because of some fault or the other of the driver/occupants of the vehicle. According to the report on “Road Accidents in India, 2011” by the Ministry of Transport and H...

In recent years, ITS projects in Japan, Europe and the US have been characterized by a strong emphasis on safe driver assistance systems designed to prevent traffic accidents. As it has become clear that eradicating accidents will be impossible by means of vehicle passive safety and single-vehicle active safety efforts alone, research and development of systems for preventing accidents through ...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is the subgroup of the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). VANET interconnects the nodes for transferring secure information between nodes, here vehicle acts as a node. VANET is used to provide safety and efficiency in transportation system. Many traffic signals are used to reduce accidents in the roads, but since it is not much effective. Hence VANET is used; it use...

This paper summarizes the recent work by the first author’s research group related to the performance evaluation of existing bridges under vehicle dynamic effects. Based on the data from short-term monitoring of existing bridges, a framework to estimate the extreme structure responses from the live load in a mean recurrence interval is developed in the first part. The Gumbel distribution of the...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is the subgroup of the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). VANET interconnects the nodes for transferring secure information between nodes, here vehicle acts as a node. VANET is used to provide safety and efficiency in transportation system. Many traffic signals are used to reduce accidents in the roads, but since it is not much effective. Hence VANET is used; it use...

As vehicle testing on existing vehicles is both time and resource consuming, the work of testing safety algorithms on vehicle is desired to be made more efficient. Therefore the goal of this thesis is to study and develop a vehicle simulation model that can simulate desired dynamics of existing and non-existing vehicles. The developed model consist of two areas of application: slow dynamics and...

This paper proposes a segmentation algorithm by means of an evidential reasoning to segment moving vehicles in front of the moving our car in a road traffic scene. Generally, an evidential reasoning finds the perceptually known evidences of a target and updates a probabilistic expectation for the target to be in an image. Since a noise image produces unreliable features and degrades the detecti...

in many countries road crashes are the main cause of fatal accidents related to job. the aim of our study was to characterize a population of iranian professional drivers with regard to history of drivers’ road crash incidents and some occupational factors. using swedish version of the nordic questionnaire information about musculoskeletal pain prevalence in last 12 months, demographic features...