Rollover incidents while driving their military vehicles has resulted in,soldiers incurring injuries or even losing their lives. A recent report identified that one cause of vehicle rollovers is the driver's inability to assess rollover threat, such as a cliff, soft ground, water, or culvert on the passenger side of the vehicle. The vehicle's width hinders the driver's field of view. To reduce ...

Many road departure accidents are caused by the drivers’ lack of attention. This is in many cases due to distraction, drowsiness or intoxication. The Lane Keeping Aid System (LKAS) described in the paper intends to be used as an active safety system, thus aiming at decreasing the amount of unwanted lane departures. The challenge in the development of such kinds of functions lies in the determin...

The Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance System for Violations (CICAS-V) project was conducted to develop and field-test a comprehensive system to assist drivers in reducing the number and severity of crashes at intersections due to violations at stop-sign and signal-controlled intersections. One essential component of such a system is the DriverVehicle Interface (DVI) to warn a driver ...

We describe an algorithm, called SWITCHER, for analysing stereo images for the purposes of vehicle obstacle detection. The algorithm has been developed as part of a project whose overall aim is the demonstration of a stereo vision system capable of warning the driver, human or automaton, of obstacles in the path of the vehicle that constitute a potential hazard given the current vehicle traject...

Traffic accidents due to human errors cause many deaths and injuries around the world. To help in reducing this fatality, in this research, a new module for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) for automatic driver drowsiness detection based on visual information and Artificial Intelligence is presented. The aim of this system is to locate, to track and to analyze the face and the eyes to c...

Detection of driver aggressiveness is a significant method in terms of safe driving. Every year, a vast number of traffic accidents occur due to aggressive driving behaviour. These traffic accidents cause fatalities, severe disorders and huge economical cost. Therefore, detection of driver aggressiveness could help in reducing the number of traffic accidents by warning related authorities to ta...

In the recent years, mobile computing platforms are becoming increasingly cheaper and yet more powerful in terms of computational resources. Automobiles provide a suitable environment to deploy such mobile platforms in order to provide low cost driver assistance systems. In this paper, we propose Snap-DAS which is a vision-based driver assistance system that is implemented on a SnapdragonTM emb...

Cooperative vehicle collision warning system is made possible by recent progress in advanced positioning systems and wireless communication technology. In this paper we report our work in developing a cooperative intersection collision warning system that is not limited by the requirement of line-of-sight. The novel elements of the system include the use of a dynamic ad hoc wireless network for...

(background, aim, method, result) max 200 words: This is a methodological paper with the aim to discuss pros and cons related to different tools and environments when evaluating the effect of warnings given to sleepy drivers. There is no simple answer to the question which platform is most suitable. It depends on the research question asked, and it is possible that different aspects of the prob...