In this study we compare the efficacy of three driver's performance indicators based on lateral deviation in detecting significant on-road performance degradations while interacting with a secondary task: the High Frequency Component of steering wheel (HFC), and two indicators described in ISO/DIS 26022 (2007): the Normative and the Adapted Lane Change Test (LCT). Sixteen participants were aske...

Applications of camera vision, such as lane departure warning systems, are limited by the quality of the frame image and the information contained within each frame. One common feature extraction technique in image processing is the use of the Hough transform, which can be used to extract lines from an image. The detected lane marking lines are used in the interpolation of a 2 nd order polynomi...

Autonomous vehicles allow utilisation of new optimal driving approaches that increase vehicle safety by combining all-wheel braking and steering even at the limit tyre–road friction. One important case is an avoidance manoeuvre that, in previous research, for example, has been approached different optimisation formulations. An typically composed evasive phase avoiding obstacle followed a recove...

For safe urban driving, one prerequisite is to keep a car within a road-lane boundary. This requires human and robotic drivers to recognize the boundary of a road-lane and the location of the vehicle with respect to the boundary of a road-lane that the vehicle happens to be driving in. We present a new computer vision system that analyzes a stream of perspective images to produce information ab...

The aim of this study was to describe the effects of sleep loss on behavioural and subjective indicators of sleepiness on a road containing a milled rumble strip in the centre of the lane. Particular attention was paid to behavioural and subjective indicators of sleepiness when using the centre lane rumble strip, and to possible erratic driving behaviour when hitting a rumble strip. In total 9 ...

We propose a new approach for vision based longitudinal and lateral vehicle control which makes extensive use of binocular stereopsis. Longitudinal control | i.e. maintaining a safe, constant distance from the vehicle in front | is supported by detecting and measuring the distances to leading vehicles using binocular stereo. A known camera geometry with respect to the locally planar road is use...

We propose a new approach for vision based longitudinal and lateral vehicle control which makes extensive use of binocular stereopsis. Longitudinal control i.e. maintaining a safe, constant distance from the vehicle in front is supported by detecting and measuring the distances to leading vehicles using binocular stereo. A known camera geometry with respect to the locally planar road is used to...